gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (09/19/90)
I have absolutely had it with Apple's "HDBackup" utility. It should be renamed "HDBlowup". Currently, it exhibits at least two fatal bugs: (1) If you keep inserting 800K disks that are not initialized (a somewhat flakey disk that you are hoping will work with a good physical insertion), it eventually crashes to the Finder saying: The Application "HDBackup" has unexpectedly quit This has happened to me twice, on the 42nd disk of a 50Mb backup. (2) I have a set of 1.4Mb disks, the result of a previous backup. For many of the disks (i.e. HD40.6, and now, HD40.7), I get the brain-damaged message, There isn't enough finder memory to work with the disk "HD40.7". This is absolute baloney. I can open the disk easily with the finder. To be safe, I added 10K to the finder memory allocation, and I increased the HDBackup allotment to 512K (instead of the standard 384K). The bug still occurs. So what's the best commercial replacement for HDBackup, at $50 or less? Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801 ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies
omalley@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) (09/19/90)
In article <70500032@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > >I have absolutely had it with Apple's "HDBackup" utility. It should >be renamed "HDBlowup". Apple, apparently, agrees somewhat. They opted to discontinue distributing the software effective with System 6.0.5. (Look on all your 6.0.5 disks ... there's no trace of it.) There was some mention of it in a 6.0.5 tech file you can ftp from apple.com. They decided not to fix incompatibilities between it and MultiFinder, if I remember correctly. Users will have to find a backup program on their own. -John --- John O'Malley / Macintosh / Purdue University / (317) omalley@mace.cc.purdue.edu / Specialist / Computing Center / 494-1787
Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) (09/22/90)
gillies writes in a message on 19 Sep 90: G> So what's the best commercial replacement for HDBackup, at $50 G> or less?... Redux, at right around $50 (maybe $53 MacConnection). If you also want SUM II, note that the SUM Backup is a subset of Redux. Also note that Redux stores files in its own internal format, not in Finder format. Offers no file compression yet. But it works, has scripting if needed, extensive filtering, and fantastic customer support (just ask Robin, CEO of Microseeds Publishing!). If you're backing up to floppies, Redux is a strong contender. --Adam-- -- Adam Frix via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!200.2!Adam.Frix INET: Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG