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3/17/93
----------------- BackMaster Info Follows --------------------------------
Price:
Retail - $79.95
Promotional - $49.95 [for first 30 commercial ship days]
Shipping - $5.00 plus $3.50 if COD.
Texas residents please add 8.25% sales tax.
Release Date:
Delayed until full release of OS/2 2.1 .
Interface:
Presentation Manager Interface with multiple options for file listings.
Pull Down and Pop menus.
Online Help.
File Selection for Backup/Restore:
Wildcard file selection (file filtering).
Select individual or multiple Directories( Folders ) from Tree View.
Select individual or multiple Files in Detailed View.
Partially selected Directories are marked with a hashed checkmark.
Fully selected Directories are marked with a full checkmark.
Backup:
Handles locked system files (*.ini *.dll *.exe) and excludes swapper.dat.
User selectable number of attempts to retry reading locked data files.
Supports multiple tape volumes and multiple volume tapes.
Unattended operation in background.
Restore:
User selectable prompting for overwrites of existing files:
Always Overwrite Never Overwrite
Prompt Before Overwrite Overwrite with Newer
Command line restore for disk crash recovery.
Data Handling:
Reed Solomon Error Correcting Code.
STAC LZS Data Compression (QIC Compliant).
Backup/Restore of Extended Attributes and Long File Names. (QIC 500 Specs)
Backup/Restore of OS/2 FAT, and HPFS file systems.
Read tapes with DOS QIC-40 rev. I, QIC-80 rev. E Logical Format.
OS/2 Users can restore files, and directories backed up using
CMS Software on DOS Machines.
Error and Message Reporting:
To Display To Log File To Both
Hardware Supported:
Floppy Devices
5.25" 1.2Mb, 360Kb
3.5 " 1.44Mb, 720Kb
QIC-40/80 Tape Drives.
Colorado Memory Systems specific:
DJ-10 "Jumbo 120" (QIC 40) & DJ-20 "Jumbo 250" (QIC 80)
AB-10 Adapter Board.
Y-Cable Drive-B Sharing.
IOmega specific:
"PC-Powered" Internal and External (QIC 80)
Y-Cable Drive-B Sharing.
Generic QIC-40/80 tape drives.
Most supported as 2nd floppy device.
Features not supported in 1.0 release, but considered a high priority:
True Incremental backup based on archive bit status.
2.88 Floppy Drives.
Colorado Memory systems FC-10, and TC-15 Controllers
Y-Cable Drive-B Sharing with drives other than CMS and IOmega.
CMS "Trakker" drives using the parallel interface.
SCSI based tape drives.