Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!agate!shelby!decwrl!pa.dec.com!bacchus!mwm From: mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Subject: Re: Need recommendation for backup program Message-ID: Date: 31 Jan 91 20:14:33 GMT References: <1991Jan29.220936.21595@cbnewsk.att.com> <6572@munnari.oz.au> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 34 In-Reply-To: ianr@felix.ee.mu.OZ.AU's message of 30 Jan 91 23:55:30 GMT In article <6572@munnari.oz.au> ianr@felix.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Ian ROWLANDS) writes: 3. Quarterback. This is a commercial product, and is highly recommended as the best commercial backup program. I have religious problems with QuarterBack. It creates it's own format file system on floppies. This means I have to have to use QB to do restores. This creates two problems: 1) I can't back up QB with QB; 2) to recover a single file, I have to start QB. For these reasons I chose ExpressCopy over QB. XCO creates either OFS or FFS format on floppies. It's as fast as QB (give or take a few percent), and has the nice intuition interface. It creates a list of the disks, including modes, sizes & dates. A search (well, grep) on that file turns up the floppy number it's on, and a copy command gets it back. Other advantages include saving links (under 2.0) as links, and the ability to run backups from the CLI, which means it can be run from a script. Finally, XCO has an ARexx interface. It comes with a CanDo deck to talk to that interface, giving a finer control over the backups than the intuition interface (you don't need ARexx to use this). It also allows saving a Rexx script to run this set of backups in the future. The CanDo program comes with the deck so you can change it, or linked with the deckbrowser so you can run it without having CanDo.