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From: phssra@emory.uucp (Scott R. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: backup utilities
Message-ID: <2581@emory.uucp>
Date: 6 Feb 88 21:51:01 GMT
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Reply-To: phssra@emory.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
Organization: Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta
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This discussion seems to have a period of 1-2 months, which is good
for those of us who haven't bought one yet, and bad for those who
have :-).

My recollection from the previous discussions, and the article in the
February MacWorld, is that if you prefer incremental backups, the
best program is probably HFS Backup (not to be confused with HD Backup).
Its main problem is that it can only backup to floppies (v. 2 -- is
there a new version in the works that would backup to tape?).  It's a
bit more flexible than FastBack, although slower, and it's a *lot* less
expensive.  On the other hand, if you don't mind overwriting a previous
backup, DiskFit is also supposed to be very good.

Now, my question is:  Does anyone know anything about the program called
MacUp which I saw advertised in the APDALog?  It's cheap ($40), and seems
to have most of the features that HFS Backup has, if not more.  It can
backup to tape, work over the network, and it has a time delay feature.
It's being distributed by A.P.P.L.E. Co-op.

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