Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!deimos.cis.ksu.edu!rutgers!rochester!udel!mmdf From: thywiss@csvax.cs.ukans.edu (John A. Thywissen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: It's back.... (was "It crashed...") Message-ID: <14561@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 3 May 89 12:48:32 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 45 Eric Giguere asks about backup programs. I use DoubleBack (in Disk Mechanic) from Lake Forest Logic, and it's FAST--BLAZINGLY!!! It also has pretty powerful file matching for selective backup (match on name, date, protect bits, filenote, etc...) AND it will set the ARCHIVE bits of files as it backs up. It can back to several drives (start writing to, for instance, DF1: while DF0: is finishing up), formats as it backs up, and displays all sorts of neat status info as it does it. Of course, DoubleBack can verify disks it backs up and it can restore from the disks. The disks it creates are standard amiga format--you can get at all the files on the backups with no special contortions. To give you an example of its speed, I was using a VERY plain vanilla program (esentially it did a COPY ALL) before I got Disk Mechanic. This program took 2 h 10 min to backup my drive. I added a bunch of stuff to the drive just before I switched to DoubleBack, and DoubleBack saved the drive in *18* min!! There are a few problems with the (now obselete) v 2.4 of DoubleBack, though: o It doesn't like being run from the CLI (it asks Mr. Guru to explain that to you.) o It doesn't set the A bits of directories LFL wasn't polite when I called them for support, either. However, the program and the rest of Disk Mechanic are VERY well done. Also included with DiskMechanic: TuneUp -- Disk Optimizer (like B.A.D.) WorkShop -- Really good disk editor BCheck -- Boot Block checker BenchMark -- System Performace Checker MarkBad -- Find Bad Blocks DiskRepair -- Jazzed-Up DiskDoctor Others: Blank, Clear, Cut, Data, Find, Move, Splice, Task Computer Mart in Texas (800) 443 8236 has them ($55), but says "They're selling like hotcakes." John ------- John A. Thywissen 1122 West Campus Rd. Rm. 213 /| |\/| | / \ |\ Lawrence, KS 66045-8081 / | | | | | | \ (913) 864 2646 _/_-_-_|_ _|_ _ _|_ _|_ _ _\__|_ _|_-_-_\