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From: bilbo@pnet02.cts.com (Bill Daggett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Hard Disk Backups Revisited
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Date: 26 Mar 88 04:40:29 GMT
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I have been using a 20 Meg hard drive for various storage for over 6 months.
So far SDBackup is the only PD program I have attempted to get friendly with
to backup the drive.  I have MRBackup which is more intuitive but the early
version was reported unreliable so I have never relied on it - it sits on the
pile of ARCed file disks.

Recently I heard of Saf-T-Net and Quarterback commercial hard drive back-up
programs and I looked at them today but couldn't learn much from their covers.
I mean, they both backup hard drives but which one is "best", reliable, fast,
menu driven, feature packed??  Of course I want reliability, compression, and
ease of use (in that order) foremost before "other features" such as
undeleting a file on a hard drive partition.  Is such a feat possible yet on
the Amiga?

Maybe you have another favorite?  I'd appreciate some discussion of why you
might think or what you might think is better.  "Stick with SDBackup" would be
most discouraging.

And thanks very much for your help.  You can either post here or to me in
Email - doesn't matter.

Bill

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