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From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: HD backup programs (was Re: Lazy rats)
Message-ID: <1066@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 88 14:45:38 GMT
References: <91@censor.UUCP>
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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From article <91@censor.UUCP>, by hugh@censor.UUCP (Hugh Gamble):
> 
> I'm in need of a good backup utility to make it as little pain as possible
> to back up 80M to a single floppy drive.  I used an old version of MR Backup
> once, but mostly I've been feeling lucky & not doing backups :^(

Now that Matt has restore working, I'm pretty happy with his
backup/restore program that was posted to moderated groups a couple of
days ago. Matt suggests that you run the backup to another partition on
your hard drive, then copy the (~800K) backup files to floppies. This
makes the backup go pretty quick, even with compression turned on.

As mentioned in the docs, limitations are files greater than the size of
a floppy, and damaged backup files can't be recovered.


What's the status on Fred Fish's BRU program? I seem to remember that
he was  going commercial with it, but haven't heard anything lately.
BRU was supposed to be able to recover anything short of taking scissors
to a floppy (it seems Fred mentioned sticking pins in a disk was a fair
test :-). How does BRU rate on backup speed, compression, and other
features?
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