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- From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: HD Backup utils
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.190048.744@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 19:00:48 -0700
- References: <27JUL199213182860@xenon.arc.nasa.gov>
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: BC Systems Corporation
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- In article <27JUL199213182860@xenon.arc.nasa.gov>, dueker@xenon.arc.nasa.gov (The Code Slinger) writes:
- > Okay, in response to my recent post asking about good backup utilities
- > that would split large files across floppies to reduce, if not eliminate,
- > wasted floppy space, the general response was to use either QuarterBack or
- > AmiBack.
- >
- > Now, one final question, which both of the above did not address on the
- > outside of the boxes (I've only looked at the boxes in a store): Are the
- > files which are backed up to floppy, restoreable without using the same
- > utility? In other words, can I restore, say, a single file without
- > having to load up the backup utility? The shareware version of the
- > backup utility I use, will backup to AmigaDOS-compatible files. So, for
- > example, I can restore a file by simply entering: uncompress file.dat.
-
- For both of these products, you will need to invoke the utility to restore a
- single file. Since you obviously have a hard disk already (or you wouldn't
- have much of a need for a backup utility), there isn't much of a problem
- loading the utility to do your restore. I just loaded Ami-Back (using a
- ToolManager installed pull-down on my Workbench) and selected the Restore
- option in under 3 seconds. This is realy no different than typing in
- "uncompress" and doesn't sound like a problem to me.
-
- > dueker@xenon.arc.nasa.gov | Proud owner of a 1985 AMIGA 1000!
- > chris@chuck.arc.nasa.gov | Chris Dueker (The Code Slinger)
- > duke@well.sf.ca.us | Mtn. View, CA, USA (Sillycon Valley!)
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