Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!kodak!uupsi!sunic!kth.se!ugle.unit.no!sigyn.idt.unit.no!bjornmu From: bjornmu@idt.unit.no (Bj|rn P. Munch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Subject: Re: Need recommendation for backup program Message-ID: <1991Feb7.171639.666@ugle.unit.no> Date: 7 Feb 91 17:16:39 GMT References: <1991Jan29.220936.21595@cbnewsk.att.com> <6572@munnari.oz.au> Sender: news@ugle.unit.no Organization: Div. of CS & Telematics, Norwegian Institute of Technology Lines: 27 In article , mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes: |> |> [.......] |> |> That's exactly what I meant. A backup of QB via QB is worthless - you |> have to have a copy of QB somewhere else. That makes a working copy of |> QB as critical as a working workbench disk. With XCO, I can restore |> XCR (the restore half of XCO) from the copy that was backed up on my |> hard disk. So I only have one incredibly critical floppy - the |> workbench floppy. With QB, you need a QB floppy as well. |> All you need is a copy of QB on your WB disk. I have made myself an "emergency" WB floppy which contains the most essential things for surviving a HD crash (or reformatting). Those include Prep, format, an editor and (you guessed it) QB. Should *that* also fail, I still have the original QB disk. It shouldn't have to be any problem, really. --- Bj|rn P. Munch | Div. of Comp. Science & Telematics, bjornmu@idt.unit.no | Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), PhD Student | Trondheim, Norway (some filler words here) | You can finger me @jod.idt.unit.no