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From: jwhitnel@csi.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Fastback --- GARBAGE ALERT
Keywords: Fastback, garbage, bugs
Message-ID: <1366@csib.csi.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 88 19:36:52 GMT
References: <5171@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: jwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell)
Organization: Communications Solutions Inc., San Jose, Ca
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Posted: Fri Jan 15 14:36:52 1988

In article <5171@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> rasnow@bek-mc.caltech.edu (Brian Rasnow) writes:
>I just bought Fastback 1.0 at the local store hoping to save time
>backing up 40+Mb.  The program is intuitive and fast, in part 
>because it takes uninitialized disks - but beware!  At disk 33, it
>reported a write verify failure, and handles this error by 
>forgetting where or what it was doing - ie. start over.  

Thanks for the report, I hate buggy backup programs.  

>
>Does anyone have a good suggestion for a hard disk program?

Get a copy of DiskFit (by SuperMac).  The latest version is 1.4 (1.3 if
you have a DataFrame).  It comes in two versions, one for DataFrames only
(free from SuperMac) and one for generic hard disks (about $75).  It is
basicly a very fancy and fast disk-to-disk copy program.  It is best used for
maintaining an image of your hard disk, since rather then building a growing
archive it reuses space taken up by older versions of a file.  In other words,
if you change a file it will delete the old copy and put the new copy on the
backup.  The file filters are limited,
you can choose backup the whole disk, applications/system files only, data
files only or backup a single file.  It is very fast, limited only by the
speed of the floppies.  Restore is equally limited, restore a complete disk
or retrieve individual files.  Files are not stored in any special way so
the finder can be used to look at your backup disks.  It will auto-format
disks for you.  It's best features are it's ease of use, it's speed and it's
error recovery.  If you loose one of the disks of a backup, you can still get
to the rest.  


>Thanks in advance.
>
>Brian Rasnow
>rasnow@bek-mc.caltech.edu

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