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From: stan@teroach.UUCP (Stan Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: HD Backup
Keywords: Quarterback, Backup
Message-ID: <1138@teroach.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jul 88 16:01:27 GMT
Reply-To: stan@teroach.UUCP (Stan Fisher)
Followup-To: <521@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>
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Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division, Tempe, Az.
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In article <521@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk> ockenden@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk
(Paul T Ockenden) writes:
>Anyone have a reccomendation for a hard disk backup proggie for the 'miga ??
>
>I've tried Mrbackup, and (no offence to it's author - it's a fine proggie
>as far as it goes!), I do find it tediously slow.....
>
>I've heard that Quaterback is supposed to be good, but I'd like a few more
>opinions before spending any money !!!!!!

Yeah, Quarterback, I love it.  I used Mrbackup for a short while and
found that a 26 Meg backup took me all evening (4-5 hours) and that
the compression on switch made files larger than the originals instead
of smaller. I purchased Quarterback and it's fantastic, feature packed
and uses less diskettes to back up then standard Amigados format.  It
takes me about an hour to back up 26 Megs now. It's well worth the $40 - $50
dollar price (through discount houses).  Don't mean to sound like I'm
knocking Mrbackup, afterall you get what you pay for, and for Shareware, 
I wouldn't expect these types of features.

(I'm in no way affiliated with the makers of Quarterback -
 Central Coast Software)
___________________________________________________________________________
+           Stan Fisher        uunet!unisoft!nud!teroach!stan             
+ Motorola Microcomputer Division, Tempe, Arizona -  (602) 438-3228
+ "...no no, let's wait for the A5000, MC88000 based Amiga with 536 Million
+  colors and 2K square graphics resolution, Yeah, that's the ticket.."