Backup to optical disk software: any recommendations?

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From: Tony Addyman
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 14:07

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Scenario: I have two large SCSI drives (400Meg) and use an Optical drive for backup.
When I ran windows I used Norton Backup for Windows. It did the job in about 5 hours.
On changing to OS/2 I am still using the same software for backup as I haven't found
anything better! I have tried Personally Safe n'Sound from IBM, but it is very SLOOOOW.
For example, it took 23.5 hours to backup 327Meg. I killed the second backup after 15 hours,
when it was half way through doing a 270M backup.

Any suggestions from happy users out there? My optical drive simply looks to OS/2 to be a large removeable FAT disk (of 483 Meg). The issue is becoming urgent as I want to move
to HPFS as this is needed for the X and Motif client development software and there is some
code I would like to compile! I don't fancy moving to an HPFS disk system and using a FAT/DOS backup system. Thanks for any advice you can give.


Tony Addyman (The man from the AA)
Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Salford
Manchester M5 4WT, UK

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From: A.M.Addyman@mcs.salford.ac.uk (Tony Addyman)
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Subject: Backup to optical disk software: any recommendations?
Date: 20 Jun 1994 14:07:59 GMT
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Keywords: backup, optical disk, suggestions
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