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From: tep@tots.Logicon.COM (Tom Perrine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: HD backup utilities?
Message-ID: <258@tots.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 91 21:34:02 GMT
Reply-To: tep@tots.UUCP (Tom Perrine)
Organization: Logicon, Inc., San Diego, California
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Well, now I went and did it! I just bought a drive that will be nearly
impossible to back-up :-)

Two weeks ago I finally joined the ranks of HD owners; I bought a GVP
series II with the 105MB Quantum for my A500.

To minimize backup problems, I have three partitions, a mostly
read-only boot partition (WB 1.3.3), a general use read/write
partition (misc data) and an "installed software" read-only partition.
I also put UUCP/News/Mail in the "read-only" partition, just because I
never want to back up the News/Mail transient data.

But I still want to back this up on a regular basis!

I just got off the phone with Robert at GVP, who had absolutely all
the answers for *all* of the questions I had about my new GVP! GVP
support is not as good as WordPerfect, but they ahve the right idea.

Anyway, I am looking at two backup options: TapeStore? which GVP uses
to back up their systems to a WangTek 5150 SCSI QIC-150 tape drive,
and *something* to back up to floppies.

(We have several of the WangTek QIC-150 SCSI streamer tapes at work,
and I have been thinking about taking one home every other weekend (or
month) to do backups.)

At this point I am looking for a vendor contact for TapeStore
(TapeStor?) and recomendations for something to backup to floppies.

I have heard the names MRbackup and QuarterBack (and QuarterBack
Tools).

Does anyone have TapeStore, or recommendations for/against MRbackup
and QuarterBack?

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