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From: umueller@iiic.ethz.ch (Urban Dominik Mueller)
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Subject: Re: HD backup utilities?
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Date: 16 May 91 11:24:49 GMT
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In article <258@tots.UUCP> tep@tots.Logicon.COM (Tom Perrine) writes:
>Does anyone have TapeStore, or recommendations for/against MRbackup
>and QuarterBack?

Especially for larger hard disks, the best solution I know is a Syquest
removable hard disk in conjunction with the FlashBack backup software.
Quarterback is reliable, but very slow (30K/Sec). When doing image
backups (the partition is copied trackwise, not filewise), I reach a
speed of 300K/sec using FlashBack. The file backup is faster, too.
There's only one weak point about FlashBack: If it encounters a faulty
media during the backup, it gives up.

For those interested: FlashBack is from Advanced Storage Systems,
14540 East Beltwood Parkway, Dallas, Texas 75244  U.S.A.

 -Dominik