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From: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Backup Programs
Message-ID: <2890@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 23 May 88 03:21:30 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
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I've just run the gamet of backup programs, and lack one crucial
feature.  I want to be able to backup my hard disk to multiple
volumes!  I.e., I want to be able to say

	bru -cv -f df0:,df1:,df2:,df3:

and then it will backup to floppies, cycling through the four
floppies in order.  This way, I don't need to feed floppies as
often, and the program never has to wait for me.  Instead of
walking away during a backup for only two minutes, I can now
catch eight minutes of that novel.  Please, please, please,
someone add this!

P.S.  I've looked at MRBackup, SDBackup, bru, LV Backup, and a
few others which I dismissed almost immediately.  LV Backup
has my vote (although I'd like to specify everything from the
command line rather than clicking gadgets) . . . it puts more
on a disk than bru, and is faster than any of the others.
(I backed up about 22M of data onto 24 disks in something
like a half hour; I should have timed it, but it was surprisingly
short and painless.)

-tom

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