Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!world!goodearl From: goodearl@world.std.com (Robert Goodearl) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Looking for recommendations on Backup software. Message-ID: <1991Jun9.162839.18776@world.std.com> Date: 9 Jun 91 16:28:39 GMT References: <1991Jun9.002624.21832@pa.dec.com> Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die Lines: 41 In article <1991Jun9.002624.21832@pa.dec.com> glennm@rover.enet.dec.com (Glenn Meyer) writes: >In article , velasco@magilla.ucsd.edu >(Gabriel Velasco) writes: >> >> I'm looking for recommendations on good p.d. or s.w. hard drive backup >> programs. I'm interested in your personal experience. I have an AT >> system with 3.5" and 5.25" HD drives. I have DOS v. 4.1. Are these >> programs any better than the one that comes with the latest DOS? > >I haven't seen any good (fast, easy to use and reliable) public domain and >shareware programs. FastBack is by far the best backup program I've used on >an AT or 80x86 system. You should be able to get that for less than $100, and >yes, it is much, much better than the backup program that comes with the >latest DOS. > I've been favorably impressed with Norton Backup. I haven't seen the latest version of Fastback, but I used both tools last winter when my company moved. I found that Norton would install on some machines that Fastback would not and that Norton consistently backed up faster and with fewer floppies. The one bug I have found in Norton occurs when logging all of the files on 4 volumes totalling 120mb and where one of the directories contained more than 1000 files. It was easy to work around. Recently I've had to do backups and restores quite a bit on my machine here at home as I've been doing testing on several versions of DOS and OS/2. Most recently, I backed up 80mb to 40 3.5" disks in under an hour. Had the disks already been used for a backup (and so formatted by the backup program) the backup would have taken significantly less time. Your mileage may vary. -- Bob Goodearl -- goodearl@world.std.com Principal Software Engineer, Easel Corporation