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From: carlos@io.UUCP (Carlos Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard Disk backup info request
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Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 17:02:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  2 17:02:27 1987
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Summary: Bru is good and fast!

I use bru, by Fred Fish to back up my hard disk. It is very fast because (for
better or worse) it does not write the floppies in AmigaDos format. So you
must use bru to extract files. On the other hand, I timed it at about two
to three minutes a disk while backing up, so backups finish in about a half an
hour. Since the Amy multitasks, I usually play a game or two of Shanghai 
while the backup runs, replacing the disk when I/O stops! Pretty painless
really.

I have found it to be reliable. It does NOT make use of the archive bit in the
current version, but I find it useful by doing an incremental backup 
specifying all files since the date of the last full (or incremental as you
prefer) backup. This works quite well, and incrementals go very quickly.

Bru is available only as shareware from Fred Fish, for $30 (last I heard). His
address is:
		        Fred Fish
		        1346 W. 10th Place
		        Tempe, Arizona  85281
						  

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			Carlos Smith
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