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- From: mitcht@alaska.net (Mitch Thompson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: HDBackup is flakey, isn't it??
- Date: 7 Jan 1996 06:19:03 GMT
- Organization: Internet Alaska Inc.
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- Hello, TAOBERLY@DELPHI.COM,
- > I tried HDBackup for the first - and probably the last time - the other
- > night. Am I doing something wrong, or is this program really flakey?
- > I managed to get it to work, for the most part, but I kept getting weird
- > "Not A DOS Disk" errors when trying to restore my partitions, and
- > sometimes only by clicking CANCEL (!) three times did it read the disks
- > properly. Then even though I had it set up to use df0: and df1: it
- > couldn't decide a set pattern for whive drive would accept the next
- > backup disk, and later it completely forgot about df1:. I'm going to be
- > downloading Abackup (v5. ??) shortly, but was wondering if there is a
- > way to make HDBackup work properly?
-
- I've never had good luck in the few times I used HDBackup. I've heard that
- people who bypass HDBackup, which is merely a graphics front end, and use the
- main backup program have much better luck.
-
- If I might recommend, try downloading
-
- DBackup221_MUI.lha disk/bakup 46K 9+Backup-program to autostore changed
- file
-
- from Aminet. Yes, it uses MUI, but it is very nice and stable. I use it with
- my ZIP drive. It keeps files in a DOS format (i.e., it is a DOS copy, not a
- streaming backup like ABackup or HDBackup. This makes it easy to restore.
- Just insert a disk, and type "copy dfx: dh0: all" and copy will create the
- directories, and everything.
-
- DBackup (DailyBackup) keeps up with the last time it was used, and you can
- click on a button to only backup files that have been added/changed since the
- last backup. It can automatically back up multiple partitions. I have two
- partitions on my hard drive, and they are copied to seperate directories on my
- ZIP disk. DBackup also can use lha to 1) compress each file as it is backed
- up, or 2) create one HUGE lha file with all the files on your hard drive in
- the archive.
-
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