edwin@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) (11/06/90)
We're very glad to announce the availability of a real nice and useful backup program for the Atari-ST: BackupST, written by Fred Appelman <fred@cv.ruu.nl>. The package consists of two programs, BackupST and Bfront, and some documentation written in LaTeX. BackupST treats a set of floppy's like a stream of data: no floppy disk space is wasted by creating subdirectories etc. Compare it to the UNIX "tar" utility if you wish. One of the best things of BackupST is its powerful restore mechanism (yes, you really might want to restore some files occasionally :-]). I like the interactive restore best: people familiar with the interactive-restore-mode of the UNIX "restore" command will encounter no problems at all using this facility. PLEASE NOTE THAT... ------------------- ... I didn't write the program, Fred did. However, I like the tool and offered this means of distribution. Any comment, complaints etc. should go to Fred Appelman <fred@cv.ruu.nl>, not to me. BackupST -------- this is the low-level program that does all the dirty work; this is typically something that you use from within your favourite shell (command line interpreter). Yes, is has __many__ options ;-) Bfront ------ this is the GEM frontend for BackupST: once you've seen it, you'll never find yourself going back to using the low-level program... Ok, enough hype, now for how to get this stuff ============================================== *****> by anonymous FTP: Site: archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5] Login: "anonymous" or "ftp" Password: your email address (you@your_domain) Usage: see the ftp(1) manual on your system File: pub/ATARI-ST/utils/backupst.zoo Important: don't forget to set binary mode. *****> by our Mail-Server program: 1) The Mail-Server can be reached at the address mail-server@cs.ruu.nl or the old-fashioned path alternative ...!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!mail-server 2) The Mail-Server understands a couple of commands, all commands must be in the message body. The first thing you might want to do is ask it for help: send HELP 3) The Mail-Server will send you the UUENCODED BackupST package if you put the following commands in the message body: begin send ATARI-ST/utils/backupst.zoo end That's all for now. If you encounter problems using the FTP service and/or the mail-server, feel free to drop me a line (by e-mail, please). thanks for your time, enjoy, --[ Edwin ]-- -- Edwin Kremer (SysAdm), Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands Telephone: +31-30-534104 | UUCP: ...!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!edwin Telefax : +31-30-513791 | Email: edwin@cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]