stan@teroach.UUCP (Stan Fisher) (07/15/88)
In article <521@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk> ockenden@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Paul T Ockenden) writes: >Anyone have a reccomendation for a hard disk backup proggie for the 'miga ?? > >I've tried Mrbackup, and (no offence to it's author - it's a fine proggie >as far as it goes!), I do find it tediously slow..... > >I've heard that Quaterback is supposed to be good, but I'd like a few more >opinions before spending any money !!!!!! Yeah, Quarterback, I love it. I used Mrbackup for a short while and found that a 26 Meg backup took me all evening (4-5 hours) and that the compression on switch made files larger than the originals instead of smaller. I purchased Quarterback and it's fantastic, feature packed and uses less diskettes to back up then standard Amigados format. It takes me about an hour to back up 26 Megs now. It's well worth the $40 - $50 dollar price (through discount houses). Don't mean to sound like I'm knocking Mrbackup, afterall you get what you pay for, and for Shareware, I wouldn't expect these types of features. (I'm in no way affiliated with the makers of Quarterback - Central Coast Software) ___________________________________________________________________________ + Stan Fisher uunet!unisoft!nud!teroach!stan + Motorola Microcomputer Division, Tempe, Arizona - (602) 438-3228 + "...no no, let's wait for the A5000, MC88000 based Amiga with 536 Million + colors and 2K square graphics resolution, Yeah, that's the ticket.."
wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand) (03/09/90)
I use Quarterback for my HD backups and I really do love it. I much prefer it to every Messydos backup program, including PCBackup 5.5. However, there's just one thing I dislike: It doesn't do any compressing. That's why I've been looking for another backup program, without success. The only one I know that does compression, MRBackup, uses the standard Amigados file format, so it's incredibly slow. Is there a backup software that is as fast as Quarterback and does compressing? -- ------------------------------------ Chris Brand - wizard@sosaria.imp.com "Justice is the possession and doing of what one is entitled to" - Platon ------------------------------------
amiga.chairman@canremote.uucp (AMIGA CHAIRMAN) (03/14/90)
I use Saf-T-Net. It does compression (1250K compresses down to 925K and goes on 1 disk). IMHO it's still the best backup software for Ami. Regards Charles --- * Via ProDoor 3.1R