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- From: mmtl@hobson.cc.flinders.edu.au (T.Lampre)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware backup program.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.000727.28920@frodo.cc.flinders.edu.au>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 00:07:27 GMT
- References: <1992Jul18.142347.24110@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <1992Jul20.131435.5815@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
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- In article <1992Jul20.131435.5815@relay.nswc.navy.mil> whiles@nswc.navy.mil writes:
- >In article 24110@gmuvax2.gmu.edu, kbass@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ken Bass) writes:
- >>In article <1992Jul18.005121.105@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
- >>>
- >>> How many people think that a shareware floppy backup program for
- >>>OS/2 would be a usefull utility in your tool box? If the Program supported
- >>>HPFS, Long filenames, Extended Attributes, and could be used to backup to
- >>>any Logical device( Floppy, Hard Drive, etc... ) Would the backup utility
- >>>be worth $35 to you? There may be a release next month if there is enough
- >>>demand for it. Let me know what you think, and what FTP sites you look for
- >>>shareware apps on, thanks!
- >>>
- >>> As an OS/2 Fan, I would like to see the shareware concept take root,
- >>>since most of the Major Dos Apps writers hove not provided 32bit OS/2 apps
- >>>yet.
- >>>
- >>> If you are a shareware developer, please let me know what you think
- >>>of the shareware concept. Is it worth your time? Would it be worth mine?
- >>>
- >>>Thanks
- >>>
- >>>Michael Kupka
- >>To be honest, unless it is a Tape Backup program that supports shitty
- >>QIC-80, it would be worthless to me. I suspect that under OS/2, since so
- >>much diskspace is required, and people are running on higher end
- >>machines, no one in there right mind is going to back 200 megs onto
- >>floppies.
- >>
- >>As far as QIC-80 drives, I did research on writing drivers and a tape
- >>backup program, but it would take too much time, and I questioned it
- >>feasability since the IBMFLPY driver may need to be modified.
- >>
- >> ---Ken
- >>
- >>
- >>--
- >>Ken Bass (kbass@gmuvax2.gmu.edu) | Telecommunications
- >>George Mason University | Techniques Corp,
- >>Student, Department of Electrical Engineering | Software Engineer
- >
- >
- >In my opinion you are wrong about backing up to floppies. Many people and
- >companies use a backup strategy which allows them to backup to convenient
- >(but small) media such as floppies. This strategy is to establish a area
- >of the disk which contains the operating system, and area for programs, and
- >an area for user stuff. The operating system area and the programs area are
- >only backed up when they are modified. The user data area is always backed
- >up and in general may not be that large. The benefit of backing up to
- >relatively inexpensive floppies which are supported by the os makes such
- >a program and process very attractive. At this point in OS/2, we have little
- >choice unless we are willing to shell out a lot of money for a tape drive.
- >Diskette drivers are standard with OS/2...
- >
- >Scott Hiles
- >whiles@relay.nswc.navy.mil
-
-
-
- This strategy is ok so long as the data doesn't grow too large. There
- is also a bit of a difference with OS/2 with all those EA's and INI
- files, not backing up those can stuff your entire system. Keeping
- things on different partitions (OS,APPS,DATA) is a good start but
- OS/2 tends to spread things around a bit making it hard to keep track
- of what needs to be backed up.
-
- The main problem at the moment is that there is only one backup
- program for diskettes readily available; the braindead BACKUP/RESTORE
- that comes with OS/2. As a user of PC-Backup under DOS I had grown
- used to being able to recover from errors and media defects with ease.
- The builtin backup has no such protection. Out of a 30 disk backup I
- did a week ago disk 17 was stuffed. None of my tools could recover it
- and the *#!@ restore won't let you skip a dud disk. It took hours to
- dig the data off the remaining disks.
-
- Whether you back up 1 meg or 1 gig makes no difference, be it on
- floppies or tapes or whatever. Having good software that can cope with
- the inevitable disasters is a necessity. Confidence in your data is
- only as good as your last restore.
-
-
- Trevor Lampre
- MIS Unit
- Flinders University of South Australia
-