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jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) writes:

>On that elusive search for a good network backup program...

>We called Fifth Generation about FastBack II, and this is what

I use F-B II Version 2.10 (latest, as far as I know; Jan 90 version) a
great deal, and have some problems.  It, for no discernible reason,
locks up while backing up, either to tape or floppy, occasionally.
Admittedly, I have a large drive (210M used of 330M), but I'm under
single-finder 6.0.3/6.0 with Desktop Manager.  Has anyone else tracked
this down more?

Should I upgrade to 6.0.5?

I'm rather disgruntled by several other features (or not) of F-B and
thought I'd ask other's opinions:

--If you have a jumbo-full drive with >6,000 files on it (sigh), it
takes about ten minutes to scan the directory, and you cannot abort the
filename scan halfway through 'n' keep those already scanned.

--I can't make it work with the Teac 60 Mbyte SCSI external tape drive.
It formats & erases tapes OK, but then bombs out with an error "unable
to write to tape correctly" after trying to actually back up for a
while.

--Compression is worse than useless: it's <10% efficient, and takes
*three times* longer on my Plus.

--Backup performance in background under MultiFinder (which I no longer
call MultiCrasher: 6.1B9 is *really stable*) is jerky, slow and
generally obnoxious.

--One cannot 2clik on a folder in Backup File Choose and have it choose
all subfolders.  Grr.  Nor does this view give you a total backup size.

Comments?

	Alex

P.S. Comments from Retrospect users are welcome; I don't have a copy to
compare.  Besides, when I back up people's systems, F-B seems by far the
more popular (not to say reliable) choice.  SUM Backup seems most
reliable, but it won't back up by folder name.
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