Re: Vitesse Salvation Bakkup problems

[richard@fiu.edu (Albert Chin-A-Young)]

Peter Handel (phandel@sempco.UUCP) wrote:
: So what's the best backup program?  I want to back up my Vulcan 40MB onto a
: SyQuest 44, but ProSEL 16 v8.84 (the BEST program ever written!) only backs up
: to 800k or 1.6MB disks...it estimated 40 disks required for my 40MB Vulcan. 
: I've been doing a straight copy in the past, but I want to get some
: compression going.  Is Salvation's Bakkup reliable?

To put it nicely, Bakkup is trash! (I'm talking new and improved 2.0 here).
The first time I did a HD->3.5 backup I had errors during the restore
which should not have happened (backup was verified). The restore was hours
after the backup also. The macros that you can pre-define are somewhat
of a joke (not all that powerful). The program can't restore files to
any directory you want (it creates a new directory tree structure
following the original pathname). The manual is _sorely_ lacking! It
can only backup to selected media (i.e. if you have a floptical don't
expect multi-floppy backups using Bakkup).

I'm ready to go back to Archiver :)

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albert