6090617@pucc.BITNET (Robert Wald) (06/09/86)
How can I order the HFS Backup program? What is the company's name,
address, phone? How reliable has it been (the current version)?
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"Behold, I teach you the Superman!
He is this Lightning.
He is this madness."ix21@sdcc6.UUCP (David Whiteman) (06/09/86)
The HFS Backup program is available from PCPC, the people who brought you MacBottom. There phone number is 1 800 MAC BUTT. It is the same program shipped with the MacBottom with a modification, so that it will not need a Mac Bottom to run on. -- ---- David Whiteman, University of California, San Diego
harrow@exodus.dec.com (06/12/86)
You can order HFS Backup from 1-800-MACBUTT. I have just received it and, 47 floppies later I have my 18 Megabytes backed up (and feel much more comfortable). I have had occasion to restore ONE program so far (NOT the whole disk!), and it worked just fine. I'm not yet ready to do a full review, but so far I'm VERY pleased and the people there (Robin, especially) is very knowledgable. Jeff
bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey) (11/06/86)
I tried to backup my brand new hard disk today -- about 15M of stuff on it, and I was getting a little nervous. I borrowed a copy of HDBackup from a friend with the idea that if it worked I'd buy it. I was not impressed. It tried to initialize the first disk, and failed. No big deal, except that it then froze the cursor. I could imagine that happening on disk 12 of a 14 disk backup. So I bagged that. I then dug up about 4 different PD backup programs. Only one of the four, MacDump, could I get to work at all. And it was painfully un-mac-like, and seemed to have no prevision for full restore... And it didn't init diskettes at all! -- Also -- In the process of backing up the crucial 5M by hand, I managed to get into a situation where the finder said for several files "The file <bleah> could not be written and was skipped" and then said "The directory of <bleah, the floppy> is full." Directory full?? On an HFS Disk? None of the folders had more than 20 files in them. And I thought the whole point of HFS was that each folder had its own directory! The finder exhibited the same behavior with two different floppies, so it wasn't the floppies' fault... -- Questions -- What backup schemes have people had good luck with? Should I just go with HDBackup and format all my disks before I start the backup? Is there good PD software available? What's up with HFS directories? Thanks In Advance for any answers... Bart Massey ..tektronix!reed!bart P.S. -- I recommend that you reply by e-mail, and I will summarize to the net (which goes without saying, of course :-)