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From: hrc@terra.dk (Henrik Raeder Clausen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Backing up your disk
Message-ID: <1930@daimi.dk>
Date: 20 Jan 89 14:40:01 GMT
References: <34544@bbn.COM>
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In article <34544@bbn.COM> cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>I notice that there are two backup's that have been posted fairly recently
>(MRBackup and Matt's "backup"), a friend with normally impeccable taste swears
>by a program called "quarterback", someone else (yesterday was it?) asked about
>a streaming tape drive.

I'm curently using MRBackup 2.4, a nice program, but it has some trouble
with archive bits, and it's SLOW! Mark Rinret (author) has promised a much
faster V3.0, I'm waiting eagerly. If this does not do the job, it's 
Quarterback for me. This is real fast, but I have other things to spend my
money for. If you can even consider a tape streamer, or you have more than
20 megabytes HD, don't try programs like MRBackup, that uses DOS file format,
it's too slow. 

   Oh, a friend of mine is considering writing a driver device for his tape
streamer in a vanilla A2000, has anyone done this already?

             Henrik Clausen,     hrc@daimi.dk
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