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- From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: HDBackup/BRU
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.193007.889@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 19:30:07 -0700
- References: <1992Aug20.160727.4775@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
- Organization: BC Systems Corporation
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- In article <1992Aug20.160727.4775@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>, charro@ee.ualberta.ca (Dan Charrois) writes:
- > I've recently purchased WB2.05 and would like to make a backup of my
- > HD. But something seems a bit strange with HDBackup/BRU supplied with
- > WB2.05. I can't remember the exact numbers, but if I want to back up
- > 90 Megs or so of data, it will take approximately 120 Megs of storage
- > space on floppies. Surely 30 Megs isn't used up in header
- > information! I haven't done a backup yet, believing I am doing
- > something wrong somewhere. If anyone has any advice on what I am
- > doing wrong, or (gasp) advice telling me that that is the way
- > HDBackup/BRU is supposed to work for any reason, I'd love to hear
- > about it.
-
- Step one is to turf HDBackup. Step two is to purchase Ami-Back. Step three is
- to use Ami-Back to make some reliable backups to your floppies.
-
- There are serious limitations with using BRU to back up many small files. The
- overhead simply kills you, as you've noticed... you're not doing anything
- wrong except using the wrong tool for the job.
-
- > BTW - I read in the 2.05 documentation that Quarterback died under
- > 2.0... yet on starting it up, it didn't have any obvious problems.
- > Does anyone know exactly how Quarterback was broken?
-
- When New Horizons bought out Central Coast Software, Quarterback died. The
- product was rewritten from scratch and the original programmer was not
- involved. How NH can claim that this effectively brand new product has "proven
- reliability" is beyond me - basically the reliability was limited to what the
- developers and the few beta testers demonstrated. When 5.0 hit the streets, it
- was drastically less reliable than 4.2 (from Central Coast).
-
- I purchased Ami-Back by sending in my QB disk and $25. At least it's reliable.
- Backup programs can not afford to be shipped buggy as NH did. Admittedly they
- did supply free upgrades (they're up to 5.02 now) but some people lost data due
- to the trust they put on QB5. That was "proven reliability".
-
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