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From: cseaman@sequent.UUCP (Chris "The Bartman" Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Need recommendation for backup program
Message-ID: <52410@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 91 02:03:50 GMT
References: <1991Jan29.220936.21595@cbnewsk.att.com> <6572@munnari.oz.au> <MWM.91Jan31121433@raven.pa.dec.com>
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Beaverton, OR
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mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes:
< 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.

Not to start a flame war (which would warrant moving this thread to
.advocacy), but as a Quarterback user, I have never experienced
problem #1, and feel problem #2 is a blessing, rather than a problem.

I regularly back up QB (it sits in the UTIL directory on my hard disk),
and have never had a complaint from it.  Granted, You can't RESTORE
from the copy that was on your hard disk in the event of a crash,
but hey, who could?  I just keep ONE working floppy with QB on
it for emergencies.

As to problem #2, when I want to restore a file, I simply fire up
QB (takes all of two seconds), and select the file I want, at which
point QB tells me which floppy disk(s) to insert, and I'm done.

Don't get me wrong.  It sounds as though ExpressCopy has a lot going
for it, especially with the CLI and Arexx interfaces (for people lucky
enough to have a tape drive or removable disk cartridge for their
backups :-( ).

Question:  Does CCS have a version of QB that is 2.0 compatible?

Regards,
Chris

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