Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!haddock!suitti
From: suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Steve Uitti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Troubles with MSDOS 3.2 XCOPY
Message-ID: <6429@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 24 Aug 88 16:00:17 GMT
References: <3143@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Steve Uitti)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <3143@tekig4.TEK.COM> mstevens@tekig4.TEK.COM (Michael Stevens) writes:
>...having recently purchased an AT clone, figured I'd better back up my disk
>(Seagate 20MB).  I'm using MSDOS 3.21.
>First I used DOS's "backup", but was unimpressed...
	Worse, I've heard (unconfirmed) rumors that the restore side of
"backup" can damage the format of your hard disk.

>So, I tried to use [xcopy and had problems]
	I haven't had any problems.  I've used xcopy to copy 5 MB
directory trees (with some large files) between hard disk drives, and
to/from 360K floppies.  My XT clone is a Leading Edge MSDOS 3.10, with
an xcopy from a 3.2 system.

>I've also heard that FastBak is good.  Any recommendations??

	I have the newer FastBack (plus?) with compression.  It really
is fast, it has a relatively nice user interface - especially for
restorations, it seems to work.  I haven't done many restores.

	Stephen.