Thanks Langa reader ( www.langa.com ) for this powerful
little utility:
http://www.akgupta.com/applications/akgbackup.htm

Uses Java ( http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4 ).

Hope you find it useful, too. juzme

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 07:00:52 -0600, "juzme" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Thanks Langa reader ( www.langa.com ) for this powerful
>little utility:
>http://www.akgupta.com/applications/akgbackup.htm
>
>Uses Java ( http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4 ).
>
>Hope you find it useful, too. juzme

Checking out the Web page, I see the program is smart enough to
compress files individually instead of trying to write all the files
into one big compressed archive. When backing up, it is important to
realize that media is not reliable. A bad sector read makes one big
compressed archive totally worthless. Whereas with individual files,
you can always restore everything except the stuff on the bad sector.
(And if you make two copies of the backup, you can usually get that
file off the other copy.) I've been backing up individual files with
no compression because of this problem. It's nice to see a backup
program that understands this. Only problem with this program is it
won't back up files newer than a specified date (i.e., it relies
entirely on the archive bit.) I've yet to find a backup utility
besides BASK that can either use the archive bit OR a date.



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"Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger" -
and YOU have not killed me!

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 07:00:52 -0600, "juzme" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Thanks Langa reader ( www.langa.com ) for this powerful
>little utility:
>http://www.akgupta.com/applications/akgbackup.htm
>
>Uses Java ( http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4 ).
>
>Hope you find it useful, too. juzme

Oh, one more thing. It does NOT backup directly to CDs unless you
have a UDF packet-writing driver.

Still waiting for a freeware backup utility that does it all. (And
that includes allowing specifying the write speed of the CD burner to
allow for drives that don't work well with all media at their top
speed, like mine. One nice thing about cdrecord on Linux is you can
specify the burn speed.)


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"Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger" -
and YOU have not killed me!

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 07:52:35 GMT, Richard Steven Hack
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

< snip >

>Oh, one more thing. It does NOT backup directly to CDs unless you
>have a UDF packet-writing driver.

>Still waiting for a freeware backup utility that does it all.

< snip >

Sounds like an application to easily copy all of one's computer files
to CDs, and/or DVDs, needs to be added to the A.C.F. freeware "wish
list".

Regards, John.

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