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Subject: Re: Comments on FASTBACK disk backup utility?
Message-ID: <1034@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Feb-87 09:39:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 17 09:39:46 1987
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In article <4394@curly.ucla-cs.UCLA.EDU> wales@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU (Rich Wales) writes:
>Has anyone out there used FASTBACK?  If so, I would welcome any informed
>comments (good or bad) regarding it.

My father currently uses FASTBACK.  I have done backups of his 20Meg disk in
about 10 minutes.  The time does vary on the speed of the operator, and the
number of floppy disk drives.  FASTBACK will allow you to use two drives so
that the program is not waiting for you to swap disks.  It also takes care of
formatting each backup disk the first time it uses it.

One of the nice features about FASTBACK is that it does file by filee
backing-up so yuo can easily restore only the files that went bad.  BTW,
FASTBACK has very nice file restoration procedures that allow individual and
batch checking of files. (ok, so I accidentaly killed a few files on my
fathers HardCard while I was hacking :-)

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