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Article #23966Re: Fastback --- GARBAGE ALERT
From: Stephen B. Baumgarten
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1988 17:40
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1988 17:40
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In article <5171@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> rasnow@bek-mc.caltech.edu (Brian Rasnow) writes: >I just bought Fastback 1.0 at the local store hoping to save time >backing up 40+Mb. The program is intuitive and fast, in part >because it takes uninitialized disks - but beware! At disk 33, it >reported a write verify failure, and handles this error by >forgetting where or what it was doing - ie. start over. >[ ... ] >Does anyone have a good suggestion for a hard disk program? >Thanks in advance. As always, we dedicated DiskFit owners suggest... DiskFit! It's the best, and if you back up frequently, probably faster than programs like FastBack that do weird things with your drives and write non-standard files. Also, great tech support (I say this for SuperMac in general -- I've never had a problem with DiskFit). Give it a try. -- Steve Baumgarten | "New York... when civilization falls apart, Davis Polk & Wardwell | remember, we were way ahead of you." ...!cmcl2!esquire!sbb | - David Letterman
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!esquire!sbb From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Fastback --- GARBAGE ALERT Message-ID: <283@esquire.UUCP> Date: 15 Jan 88 17:40:38 GMT References: <5171@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) Organization: DP&W, New York, NY Lines: 20 Keywords: Fastback, garbage, bugs