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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: selco on June 23, 2004, 09:23:24 AM

Title: How to backup? (the "professional" way)
Post by: selco on June 23, 2004, 09:23:24 AM

Hi,
I am looking for the best way to make backups of my Amiga harddisks.
In the past I simple burned the contents of my drives completely to CD. But drives become bigger and a simple 1:1 copy is a waste of space. So I would like to make incremetal backups after an initial full backup.

So what is the best program for that? I read about 2TAR", but that seems to make backups based on file-dates rather then on the archive-bit. Right?

I never tried the hdbackup-program from Amiga OS. Can anybody recommend that?

Is Diavolo-backup still available somewhere?

Or is there any ather recommended program?

Best regards selco

Title: Re: How to backup? (the "professional" way)
Post by: Noster on June 23, 2004, 10:40:11 AM

Hi

> I never tried the hdbackup-program from Amiga OS. Can anybody recommend that?

Back that days where HD's where 40MB or less, I used Quarterback to make backups to floppy disks, and that was a fine backup-tool for that purpose (I still own very old backups from my A1000 and A2000 :-)).
After I got my A3000T, I switched to Diavolo-Backup and still using it.
It works very fine in conjunction with my Wang 1GB SCSI-streamer (bought at eBay for a few Euros). It contains a sheduler for automatic backups (e.g. weekly complete backup, dayly incremental backup).

> Is Diavolo-backup still available somewhere?

You could still buy it e.g. http://www.vesalia.de, but it is expensive (63,92 EUR + postage), at the other side it is the best backup-tool I've ever seen.

Noster

Title: Re: How to backup? (the "professional" way)
Post by: itix on June 23, 2004, 10:41:03 AM

Buy another HD :-)

Title: Re: How to backup? (the "professional" way)
Post by: amiga1260 on June 23, 2004, 11:01:18 AM

You could use Abackup. You can get it from Aminet and it's free. There's a demo of Diavolo backup on Aminet.