[comp.sys.amiga] Hard Drive Backup Util?

owen@euclid.dec.com (Steve Owen) (01/08/90)

Hi All,

     I got a hard drive for my A500 for Christmas. (A supra with a 40meg,11ms
Quantum in it, the thing kicks but that's besides the point).  

     I'm looking for suggestions on a hard drive backup Utility.  I'm leaning
toward getting Quarterback.  Is there anything better?  I just want to know
what some of your experiences are so I can make a good choice.

     Is there anything in the public domain (or shareware) that is worth
mentioning?

Thanks Alot
Steve Owen


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dcr3567@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.C. Richardson) (01/10/90)

     Help ALL!!:

I just backed up my hard drive the other day (01.07), and have a 11meg
file on my second partition.  I backed it up using Matt Dillons Backup
/restore program with this:
    Backup -c FF1: -oFF2:ff1/Backup01.07
and it backed it up no problems.

Now, I try and restore it with : Restore Backup01.07 (it's CD'd to
FF2:ff1), and it goes to it.  It then gets to  file VIDPLAY (vidEfx3d),
and it spews out "unknown file type" or something like that.

Right now, I'm trying again with restore -c Backup01.07.  Is this the
right way to do it?  I sure hope so....

              Daniel Richardson
              RIT-Mechanical Engineering