cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) (01/14/89)
I've suddenly become interested in how folks handle backing up their disks (guess why :-). What DO you'all do about it [I've been real spoiled and always had an operations staff "somewhere else" who worry about that kind of thing]. I notice that there are two backup's that have been posted fairly recently (MRBackup and Matt's "backup"), a friend with normally impeccable taste swears by a program called "quarterback", someone else (yesterday was it?) asked about a streaming tape drive. For my part, I can neither afford another I/O device nor to leave 1/2->1/3 of my disk empty (to do a partition->partition backup), so it looks like backing the thing up direct to floppies is about the only overall plan that'll work. Anybody have advice on what works and what doesn't? Thanks __ / ) Bernie Cosell /--< _ __ __ o _ BBN Sys & Tech, Cambridge, MA 02238 /___/_(<_/ (_/) )_(_(<_ cosell@bbn.com
hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser) (01/16/89)
Bernie - I use QuarterBack from Central Coast Software. It handles
about a Meg a minute not counting the time it takes to swap the floppies
in and out. It'll back up to and restore from two floppy drives (switching
between the two) and many other mass storage devices. I simply haven't
seen anything faster or better. I'd recommend it highly.
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<---open Push down while turning close tightly--->hrc@terra.dk (Henrik Raeder Clausen) (01/20/89)
In article <34544@bbn.COM> cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) writes: >I notice that there are two backup's that have been posted fairly recently >(MRBackup and Matt's "backup"), a friend with normally impeccable taste swears >by a program called "quarterback", someone else (yesterday was it?) asked about >a streaming tape drive. I'm curently using MRBackup 2.4, a nice program, but it has some trouble with archive bits, and it's SLOW! Mark Rinret (author) has promised a much faster V3.0, I'm waiting eagerly. If this does not do the job, it's Quarterback for me. This is real fast, but I have other things to spend my money for. If you can even consider a tape streamer, or you have more than 20 megabytes HD, don't try programs like MRBackup, that uses DOS file format, it's too slow. Oh, a friend of mine is considering writing a driver device for his tape streamer in a vanilla A2000, has anyone done this already? Henrik Clausen, hrc@daimi.dk Preliminary .signature Preliminary .signature Preliminary .signature Preliminar