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FSave 1.0 Highly configurable filesave program: backups are fast and easy!
1-UTIL SEP94 BACKUP FILESAVE SAVE ARCHIVE
FILES: fsave10.sdn
Author: Kenneth A. Reek
Registration: Personal $17.50, Corporate $20
You know that you should back up the files on your computer to safeguard
your data in the event of hardware or software failures. But if you
avoid doing backups, or only do them infrequently because they are such a
pain in the neck, then FSave may be just what you're looking for.
FSave is a program for DOS or Windows that simplifies the task of saving
the files on your PC. You specify which files must be saved, omitting any
that can be reloaded from their original distribution diskettes, bulletin
boards, or other sources. This must be done only once, and you can use
filename patterns and modification dates to identify files on a directory-
by-directory basis. Once this is done, FSave backs up only the files you
specified, and ignores the rest. By saving only the files that cannot be
recovered from other sources, FSave makes your periodic filesaves small,
which means that they are fast and easy to do. No special hardware or
expensive media (e.g. tape drives or tapes) are needed. I regularly back
up my 170 Mb disk onto a single 1.44 Mb floppy, and it only takes a couple
of minutes to do.
By making filesaves fast and easy, FSave makes it more likely that you will
do periodic filesaves more frequently. If your hard disk bites the dust or
you have lost data for any other reason, you will be eternally grateful
that you have an up-to-date filesave.
The shareware version of FSave is fully functional, and comes with the same
extensive documentation included in the registered version. It contains
tutorial instructions as well as detailed descriptions of all the commands
and options available.
Note that FSave does not actually do the archiving itself -- it merely
locates the files which should be saved, and then invokes your favorite
archiving/compression program to do the real work. Any compression program
which can read a file to get a list of filenames to be saved can be used; I
suggest that you begin with pkzip version 2.04g or later because that is
what is shown in the tutorial examples.