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From: halo@cognos.UUCP (Hal O'Connell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Backup Program Reccomendation
Message-ID: <7739@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 89 14:24:49 GMT
References: <3631@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <22300@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: halo@cognos.UUCP (Hal O'Connell)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <22300@ut-emx.UUCP> sjk@ut-emx.UUCP (bob) writes:
>
>I  just tried to use the latest posted version of MRBackup to
>backup my three partitions on my Q80. It didn't make it through any
>of them sucessfully.  

I gave up on MRBackup due to speed and reliability. It has some good
features and a reasonable interface, but it was taking almost five hours
to backup 20 megs (about half of my hard drive is in use), and it
locked up once in a while.

I've said this before, if you have to go with PD software, or you
are downright cheap, the most reliable and fastest backup software
that comes free is Matt Dillon's Backup program. It came in the DNET
package. Strictly CLI, and the interface will make a Unix wizard
smile, but it is fast, reliable and well documented. It backs up
20 megs in around 2 and 1/2 hours.

Mind you, I got this copy before Matt started thinking about going
commercial :-)

And most of my friends do swear by Quarterback...


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