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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Backup Programs
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Date: 23 May 88 18:27:14 GMT
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In article <7207@swan.ulowell.edu| page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
|rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) wrote:
||cycling through the four floppies in order...someone add this!
||... I've looked at MRBackup ... which I dismissed almost immediately.
|You must have dismissed MRBackup for some other reason, since it will
|do this .. it looks for a particular label on any inserted disk & uses
|that.  It means you have to pre-label all your disks, though.
|
|BTW I'd like to see a 'quickformat' option to MRBackup, just zap the
|boot, root and bitmap blocks instead of slogging through each block.

We have been using MRBackup 2.1, and found it a very good program.  It
GURUS every once in a while, but otherwise it does what is supposed to
do very well.  And it is cheap.  I'd also like the "quickformat" option.
Mark, what is available in 2.2 that is not in 2.1?

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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