Albert Sodyl wrote to ALL on 10-10-1999

AS> Hey ALL, what's up?
AS> 
AS> Does anyone know of a good backup program for OS/2?
AS> One that supports HPFS and long file names?
AS> One that will work on OS/2 v2.11?
AS> One that saves the disk just like it is and perfectly
AS> even hidden files and everything, and also restores
AS> them in the exact condidtion they were in before?
AS> One that is freeware/shareware/whatever?
AS> 
AS> If you know or use such a program, or similar program,
AS> please reply without further adue, thank you very much
AS> in advance!
AS> 
AS> If you know of an FTP of where I could get it, that would
AS> be awesome!

After tonight, I still recommend Personal Safe 'n Sound that comes
with Warp Server.  Not sure if it's still for sale outside of Software
Choice, but Idelible Blue used to carry it at a competitive price.  

Hazards of writing device drivers: I clobbered SOMETHING in the OS2
system files and had to do a full restore of nearly 2 gig of system and
data.  Booted to a floppy recovery disk and read a book while PSNS
chugged for quite a while.  Also discovered that filling a 1g HPFS
partition with literally thousands of backup files - 100k free - can
REALLY bog down HPFS!!  Restored 40,000+ files in under an hour from
power on, tho.  First actual necessary full restore since I first
installed this Warp 4 system.

Will Honea 
--- Maximus/2 2.02