| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
Just a quick, easy question (for those with hard disks): Is there a good PD or commercial backup utility, or some simple way to backup an entire DH0: or some part thereof to diskettes? Some features that would be useful: selective backup by path, assignment, or directory with subdirectory. uses all DF drives, switching drives automatically and signaling so user can swap diskettes on the "completed" drive. labels the diskettes with ordinal number and date/time. restores directory trees, files in correct directory. Come to think of it, I haven't tried DISKCOPY DH0: to DF0:. What happens when DF0: runs out of space? Thanks- John O.
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| 1180.1 | SDBACKUP | LEDS::ACCIARDI | Wed Feb 17 1988 12:35 | 16 | |
Our own Steve Drew has written a fine HD backup utility called
'SDBackup' which is floating around on the e-net. It features file
compression, incremental backup/restore, and most of the other things
you mentioned. It will create a backup log file, but won't create
labels for individual floppies.
Hardhat is a commercial utility that retails for $69, but I don't
know too much about it.
There are another three or four PD backup utilities, but I've been
sticking with SDBackup for now.
If you try to copy DH*: to DF*: from the Workbench, Intuition will
bitch (thankfully) that the device types are incompatible.
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| 1180.2 | MRBackup available on MVCAD3 | MVCAD3::BAEDER | D. Scott DTN 237-2961 SHR1-3/E19 | Wed Feb 17 1988 20:38 | 9 |
the MRBackup (Mark Rinfret??..not Mister) backup is ok in most
of the reguards mentioned..I haven't used either yet (I know...
I'm asking for it! ;-) fortuneatly you can backup using copy from
DH0: to DH1: (I opted for 2 equal partitions...
The only advantage I see for MRBackup is the use of WB over CLI,
but for me...I think SDBACKUP is probably the way to go...
scott.
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| 1180.3 | More Backups | FSTVAX::BROWN | Thu Mar 10 1988 11:52 | 13 | |
I have both MRbackup and SDbackup, and have bought HARD HAT and
LV-backup. MRbackup and SDbackup are both good programs, but I like
LV-backup because it lets me select directories and/or files to
backup or restore.
HARD HAT is the pits!!!!!
The version that I have takes about 1 hour to backup 1 floppys worth
of data. If you are interupted or stop you have to restart over
again. For a 20mb hard disk it takes about 20 hours to do a backup
if you are not interupted, then you get to start over.
Burt.
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| 1180.4 | So Many Sectors .. So Little Time | DICKNS::MACDONALD | WA1OMM Listening 52.525 | Sat Apr 30 1988 23:02 | 1 |
SDBACKUP takes about 25 minutes per floppy .. ugh! | |||||