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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: motorollin on January 29, 2006, 01:46:29 PM

Title: Backup software with span support?
Post by: motorollin on January 29, 2006, 01:46:29 PM
Is there any backup software for the Amiga that supports spanning? I want to backup on to Zip disks but don't want to have to manually copy over in 100Mb chunks.

Thanks.

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moto
Title: Re: Backup software with span support?
Post by: amigakit on January 29, 2006, 02:18:08 PM
Im developing a System Restore tool atm to include with all our hard disks.  That will be available about May though!

Title: Re: Backup software with span support?
Post by: Amigaz on January 29, 2006, 02:38:00 PM
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amigakit wrote:
Im developing a System Restore tool atm to include with all our hard disks.  That will be available about May though!



Sound great

Would be great if there was something similar to Norton Ghost for the Amiga  ;-)
Title: Re: Backup software with span support?
Post by: motorollin on January 29, 2006, 02:50:53 PM
Sounds good. Is there anything available now though?

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moto
Title: Re: Backup software with span support?
Post by: odin on January 29, 2006, 03:04:21 PM
Doesn't the prehistoric standard backup tool included with 3.0/3.1 (?) support spanning over DOS-devices? Or am I confusing it with some tape(worm)-mountlist kinda thing?

Perhaps Diavolo-backup does something like that?
Title: Re: Backup software with span support?
Post by: orange on January 29, 2006, 05:22:22 PM
why don't you just use some archiver with split option? IIRC lha has it
(+store all files)
Title: Re: Backup software with span support?
Post by: motorollin on January 29, 2006, 06:22:22 PM
I thought of that, using an archiver and specifying the size for each chunk. But how would I handle disk changes when one gets full? Is there an archive that will prompt for the next disk before starting the next chunk?

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moto
Title: Re: Backup software with span support?
Post by: amigagr on January 29, 2006, 08:12:24 PM
have you try the quarterback? i use it a lot back in the days that i hasn't cd-rw for backups in my a1200 and it was very good. i don't know if you can set it up to work with zip disk but it's fine for floppys. my last backup of os3.1 before i install os3.5 was 60 floppys :-)