Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!auvax!kevinc
From: kevinc@auvax.UUCP (Kevin "auric" Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help! Can't restore from FastBack backup!
Summary: Here is a vote for TakeTwo
Keywords: FastBack
Message-ID: <712@auvax.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 88 18:44:52 GMT
References: <39379@linus.UUCP> <3262@homxc.UUCP>
Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
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In article <3262@homxc.UUCP>, rps@homxc.UUCP (R.SHARPLES) writes:
> 	  product I use is called TakeTwo.  It allows you to select files,
I have been using TakeTwo for well over a year now, just upgraded to
the TakeTwo Manager version and I vote whole heartedly for this
program.
Why?

I am now on my third hard disk in two and a half years, and I back up
every day, with major backups every week and full backups every month.
That is a lot of backing up and disks.  I have _NEVER_ had any problem
restoring a hard disk.

My last hard disk died a very slow and painful death - I had bad
sectors creep in about every thre to four days and generally had to
low-level format once a week just to keep the damn thing working until
the new disk could arrive, which actually took quite awhile because of
internal politics.

Oh, BTW, the new disk I have is a ST251 ( I originally keep the shift
key pressed and got ST@%! which is what I think of this drive) and I am
not happy.  The drive sounds like a Mac Truck having a torture test
accident in the middle of a demolition derby.

Anyone got some good! suggestions on disks.  I do a lot of intensive
disk writing so I really need a drive that has good reliability.  I
really don't like MTBF ratings as anybody who knows anything about
statistics means are a very poor measure of dispersion.  I want a drive
with zero defects and a max time to failure of some incredibly high
gigahours!!!!!!! (:-|  [I don't know about the rest of you but my eyes
are at the top of my head]

Affectionately,
Kevin Crocker