You may also want to check out Teledisk, which is what I used to use.
And it was nice in that it would only copy tracks/sectors that actually had data, and did
compression.
so it was fast and created small images.
There's another one that escapes me at the moment that did much the same thing, and
even support 2.88mb floppies (does anyone still have these?)
Dan.
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Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:56:46 -0400
From: mcguire at
neurotica.com
To:
CC:
Subject: Re: DOS/Floppy backup program benchmarks
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Date:
Mon, 12 May 2008 11:04:15 -0500
From: Jim Leonard
What I would love to test is Central Point Backup
(PC Backup?) prior to
version 6, which is the only version I had available to test. Versions
prior to 6 are supposed to contain code that supports the Option Board I
have in my 5160 for additional speed -- however, I'm not sure how much
speedup I could expect, since some of the faster programs in the
shootout must have been operating at a 1:1 intereave (I was writing all
40 tracks both sides in less than 30 seconds per disk; can it get any
faster than that?).
I'll dig out the old FastBack and see if I've got an older CP backup--
I may well have.
Ahh yes, I was beating my head against the wall trying to remember
that name. I used FastBack all the time when I was writing database
apps under DOS. We used it around the office to move files around, and
between work and home. It's actually a really nice package as I recall.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
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