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From: keeshu@nikhefk.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Comments on FASTBACK disk backup utility?
Message-ID: <117@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Feb-87 17:26:19 EST
Article-I.D.: nikhefk.117
Posted: Sat Feb 14 17:26:19 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Feb-87 09:26:55 EST
References: <4394@curly.ucla-cs.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: keeshu@nikhefk.UUCP (Kees Huyser)
Organization: National Institute for Nuclear Physics; Netherlands
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In article <4394@curly.ucla-cs.UCLA.EDU> wales@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU (Rich Wales) writes:
>I am considering buying the FASTBACK hard-disk backup program.
>
>FASTBACK is supposedly very fast, and (because of an "Advanced Error
>Correction" scheme) very reliable.  (At least, that's what the company's
>own advertising says. :-})
>
>Has anyone out there used FASTBACK?  If so, I would welcome any informed
>comments (good or bad) regarding it.
>
>-- Rich Wales // UCLA Computer Science Department // +1 213-825-5683
>	3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, California 90024 // USA
>	wales@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU   ...!(ucbvax,sdcrdcf,ihnp4)!ucla-cs!wales

I've been using Fastback now for about 8 months, and I'm very satisfied with
its performance. A complete backup of a 20 Mb disk takes about 12 minutes.
Presently I'm using a system with only one diskdrive (360 Kb), so backing up
the HD takes a lot of floppies and more time than nessecary due to changing the
disks every few seconds. Fastback can use a 1.2Mb floppy if available.
The program uses its own recording technique to write to the disk, which allows
it to write more than 360Kb on a standard disk.

-- Kees


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