home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
PsL Monthly 1994 June
/
PSL Monthly Shareware CD-ROM (June 1994) (Public Software Library).bin
/
reviews
/
u1_09
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1994-02-23
|
47KB
|
1,201 lines
U1-09: Hard Disk Utilities
3_Drives 2.6 [3_DRIVE] (11-93 CD)
Dustbowl Designs, Inc.
$30
#12649
is a device driver that allows you to add a third hard disk drive to your
system. You can combine MFM, RLL, ESDI and SCSI interface drives with the
new low-cost IDE AT Interface drives for a total of three drives. This
program is Windows compatible. Requires 286 or better CPU and DOS 5.
ABF
Communications Ink
$20
#1141
Automated Backup Facility monitors the status of your files and backs them up
as required. ABF learns as it goes by recording how often you backup each
file. It also lets you specify files, such as program files, that do not need
backing up. ABF will work with hard disks or floppies.
Backit 3.0
Jarrett, Eric
$5
#12099
is a daily back-up program for hard disk systems. It copies without
reformatting into the same directories on a floppy as on your hard disk. It
cancopy on to multiple floppies.
BackWorks
The DataWorks, Inc.
$29-$31
#3882
is a backup and restore utility. BackWorks allows selective directory backups
and restores. It works on networks and across hard drives. BackWorks is fast
and completely menu driven.
DiskQwik 1.1 [DISKQWIK]
Dustbowl Designs, Inc.
$28
#12601 (11-93 CD)
claims to boost the transfer rate of IDE hard drives by up to 45% by
activating the drive's multiple sector block transfer mode. It includes
a utility to tell if your drive has the built-in capability to use this
mode and a Data Transfer Rate test to measure the results.
Duplicate File Locator 3.40 [DLF340]
W. S. Ataras Engineering, ASP
$39
#3470 [March 1994 CD]
will locate, view, compare and delete duplicate files no matter where the
files reside. It will delete duplicate files in various subdirectories, on
network drives, or even in archive files of various formats. Requires 340K.
Flexibak Plus 3.0 [FLEXP300]
Nildram Software ASP
$63
#3387 (01-94 CD)
is a hard disk backup system which, after doing the first full backup, does
incremental backups to the same disks. This makes it easier to do a full
restore, since you do not have to use multiple sets of incremental backup disks.
Flexibak alerts you to files missing since the last backup, warns you when you
have not been backed for a specified number of days, and compresses files. It
will handle multiple (up to 20) hard drives.
File-Safe
Marcor Enterprises
$54
#1853
is an automatic backup utility. It allows you to pre-select directories and
files to be backed up and the frequency for each. When included in the
AUTOEXEC.BAT file, the system automatically scans a master file of backup
schedules and presents only those items needing backup. If none are needed it
returns to DOS. Those files needing backup are presented in a menu form with
easy selection of parameters along with information about previous backups.
-------------------------------
0602 Hard Disk Backup Utilities Small Programs Disk
-------------------------------
Archive
is a menu-driven backup utility. It lets you scroll through all your
subdirectories and their files, marking them for backing up, and then it backs
up the ones you have selected.
BACopy (BAC)
will copy files to a target disk without overwriting files of the same name
that have newer file dates. If a disk gets full, it will prompt you for a new
disk.
BK
is a set of files to automate and track the backing up of your hard disk.
BackupMaestro 2.07 (BM)
PCX/Delphi Technology Corporation
$59
makes backing up your hard disk both fast and easy. It supports all disk
formats, including backing up to 1.44meg disks in drive B:.
BkBat
Goodell, Dan
$0
is a set of files which automates the use of PK-Zip to do incremental back-ups
of your hard disk. (PK-Zip is a popular archiving program on disk #1705.)
BKCK 2.2
Crouch, John E.
$15
will give information about files on your hard disk that need backing up.
It will check specified paths or files or the entire disk or even multiple
drives, or only files changed after a certain date. You can specify the size
of the backup disk, from 360K to 1.44M.
FBR 1.8
Buerg, Vernon D.
$0
is a system of three small programs which perform the backing up and restoring
of files. They are similar to the DOS BACKUP/RESTORE utilities except that FBR
can only process one directory at a time. It does, however, back up all files
in a directory, filling as many backup disks as necessary. It also features
the ability to compress files.
FRestore (FRESTOR)
Clark, Stephen P.
$0
restores one or more files from a DOS 3.3 BACKUP without having to go through
all the diskettes.
HardBack (HARDBAC)
Haugeland, John
$25
is a hard-disk back-up program designed specifically for backing up one hard
disk onto another hard disk (or similar device, such as a Bernoulli drive).
The idea is that you could have two hard disks and use one to backup the
other. The advantages are that this is much faster (as little as 30 seconds),
more reliable and probably cheaper than a tape backup and if your primary
drive crashes, you can run from the other hard disk. The disadvantages are
that you cannot have off-site backup or "grandfather" backups.
HardBack works with "logical" drives, so you can back up from one partition to
another on the same physical drive. Any number of subdirectories on either the
source or the back-up drive, or both, can be explicitly marked by the user to
be ignored by HardBack.
KCopy
Russell, Kent
$0
is a flexible file back-up and copying utility. Options include the following:
clear the archive attribute; do not overwrite a file of the same name; format
each disk before copying to it; copy only file changed during a specified date
range; copy only changed files; copy only if the file is newer than a file of
the same name on the target disk; prompt before overwriting; prompt for each
file before copying; traverse all subdirectories; copy only files that are
already on the target disk (ie: update only); copy all files except those
specified; delete files on the target disk before copying.
KopyNew
Siegel, Glen
$0
is a backup program that saves you time by only copying the files which have a
later time or date than the same filename on the destination disk. We had
several utilities that did this same thing, but this was the best of them.
Show (SHOW-GR)
Roberts, Glenn F.
$?
will print out the amount of space the a specified set of files would occupy
if copied to a specified drive and the amount of free space currently
available on the drive. This is useful for determining if a set of files
would fit on a floppy disk. (They may not fit because of different minimum
space allocations used by, say, a floppy disk as opposed to a hard disk.)
--------------------------------
END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0602
--------------------------------
What Tape Back-up? 1.4 [WTB15]
Babudro, Angel
$0
is a tracking system for tape backups. It keeps a record of when backups
are made, suggests next tape set to use, and operates tape software.
(Special order from the January 1994 CD.)
------------------------
1514 Hard Disk Backup #2 Small Programs Disk
------------------------
AutoSave
Biologic Corp.
$?
is not really a backup utility, but we have included it here because it is
designed to safeguard your data. AutoSave is a resident utility that
automatically saves the data to disk at regular intervals in whatever program
you are using. For example, if you are using 1-2-3, it will automatically
save your worksheet; if you are using a word processor, it will save your text
file. This protects you from losing hours of work to a power outage or
computer lockup.
BackStat
Ross, Ed
$?
tells you how many bytes worth of files on your hard disk have not been backed
up. Put Backstat at the end of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to remind you on bootup
how files need backing up.
Bakcheck (BAKCHEC)
T