Labels:line | blue | screenshot | colorfulness | majorelle blue | abstract OCR: MegaBack PC Backup System for DOS by Tony Curro As some of you may know, I am a big advocate of backups. A few weeks ago I was testing this product for review. About 10 days after I ran ny last test, and last backup, I had a hard drive crash. The only way to get into it was by reformatting. This meant losing ALL the data on the hard Irive, of which the original of this review was one. I knew I had a backup. ctually, I had several. A few were for other tests and were outdated. The one for MegaBack was the most current, and since I do a FULL backup every time I test, I did have a good portion of the information. I lost 5 reviews I had written, and several programs I had recently downloaded. It was not as bad as it seemed at first. MegaBack was a BIG plus for me this day, as any backup program would have been. One thing that makes MegaBack different is that it's shareware. You can download it from most BBSs, and even directly from the author's BBS (Patri-Soft). Some backup programs can be cumbersome when you do not have the catalog file. MegaBack created the information directly from the disks I had the backup on. The rest of the restore was easy and painless . Mostly all the features you will find in a commercial backup program, you will find in MegaBack. It supports floppies or any DOS device, but does not support a tape drive. It will do a Full, Incremental, or allow jou to select files to backup. When you choose incremental, if you wish, you can see a list of the files that need to be backed up. From this list you can deselect files you do not wish to backup. MegaBack can be run from the command line if you prefer. It has online help for all the commands and options. Installation is very simple und there is help there to guide you every step of the way. Backing up multiple drives is also available from MegaBack. You may also change the color combinations of the screens if you so desire. You have the option to select which files to restore, if you do not want them all placed on your system. When I backed up, I selected the options: Save Space (Max), and Verify. Both of these options will slow the program down a bit. I was still doing over a megabyte a minute while backing up. As I mentioned earlier legaBack will build an index from the volume data in the event your index was destroyed. Registered users receive additional utilities, one of which is 1BAlarm to remind you when it is time to backup. These programs are also available on Patri-Soft BBS. For its price and ease of use, would suggest MegaBack. Since you can download it, you do not even have to go the store to buy it, and since it is shareware you can try it and then buy it. Look for MBACK135.ZIP, hich was the latest as of this writing . Product Information MegaBack PC Backup System for DOS Registration - $39.00 Patri-Soft 5225 Canyon Creek Drive Suite 71-358 Riverside, CA 92507 714-352-2820 714-352-2825 (BBS)
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