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In article <1268@husc6.harvard.edu> hellerst@husc4.UUCP (Joe Hellerstein) writes:
>Would like to hear people's recommendations for backup utilities (hard
>drive to floppies...)  I've been using HFS Backup 1.1, but its
>incremental backup is very space-wasteful -- it doesn't reclaim any space
>on the old backup, it just asks for new disks for the updated files.
>Is DiskFit good?  How about the plain old Apple HD Backup (I'm skeptical...)

Yikes! HFS Backup 1.1 is seriously out of date (by at least 2 years),
and not all that reliable.  (maybe you don't have problems, but I
did...).  Call PCPC (they used to be at 800-622-2888) and ask about an
upgrade to version 3!
   HFS Backup 3 has an "overwrite" mode where newer versions of a file will
replace old ones in an archive, thus saving floppies.  It also has lots
of other features.
   But the backup utility I want is Retrospect.  If I could only convince
myself that it is really worth $150 or so to help organize my file archives.
   You might also want to consider trading to FastBack II -- I think they
still offer a $40 deal if you send in the title page from another backup
utility manual.

-Jon
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