Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!rutgers!cbmvax!kevin
From: kevin@cbmvax.UUCP (Kevin Klop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HD Backup Programs
Message-ID: <6556@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 89 21:31:18 GMT
References: <5169@garfield.MUN.EDU>
Reply-To: kevin@cbmvax.UUCP (Kevin Klop)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <5169@garfield.MUN.EDU> joseph@garfield.MUN.EDU (Joseph Dawson) writes:
>
>I am looking for a backup program that will erase files off my
>backup disks when I erase them off my hard disk.  That way I will
>only need 40 MEGS of disks to backup a 40 meg hard disk.
>
>Such a program is quite common on other systems (IBM & MAC), but
>I can't find one for the Amiga.

Common?? I don't think so, as none of the backup programs that I have
seen on either machine (and I have done a lot of work with both of them)
erased files off of my backups when I delete them from the hard drive.
In fact, I would immediately trash any backup program that DID do that.

Why?  Because one of the most frequent mistakes is the "oops, I deleted
the wrong thing last week - I'd better recover it from the backup."
type.  Except that your method wouldn't allow that to happen.

                     -- Kevin --