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- From: clemens@faui8a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Clemens Beckstein)
- Subject: Re: Reviews of OS/2 Backup So
- Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:41:32 GMT
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- michael.hagerty@spacebbs.com (Michael Hagerty) writes:
-
- >Under DOS I used Sterling Software's Intelligent Backup (later shortened to
- >just DMS/IB -- I guess they were really mainframe people at heart). I also
- >tried and recommended to others a product developed in England named Flexi-
- >Back Plus. Same principle... Daily backup consisted of the program asking
- >for diskette 6, then 17, then 19 and then the master dictionary diskette.
- >Real simple...
-
- >Sterling has just released their OS/2 version, supporting HPFS. My copy is
- >on order, but has not yet arrived. I have attempted to convince the author
- >of flexi-back plus that there is a market for his product under OS/2, but
- >he is of the mind that there is probably more need for a Windoze product.
- >Alas...
-
- >The two things which I really liked about Flexi-back plus which were
- >lacking in DMS/IB was the ability to intermix different density (same size)
- >diskettes in the pool and the ability to create a new copy of a diskette
- >which was showing signs of going bad...
-
-
- Can you give some more info about Sterling (email and/or FAX) and
- about the price of the Software? Looks like the floppy backup
- solution I have been looking for...
-
- - Clemens
-