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Short: A powerfull and full-featured backup program
Author: denis.gounelle@wanadoo.fr
Uploader: denis.gounelle@wanadoo.fr
Type: disk/bakup
Replace: abackup514.*
ABackup is a program which allows you to backup data from your hard disk. It
can be used on any Amiga model, providing you have Kickstart V37 or higher,
and at least 1 Mb of memory.
ABackup has all the features you might expect from such a program:
- Both full and selective backup and restore operations (you can select
the files by name, by date, by protection bits, but also one by one)
- Backup to floppy disks, to partitions (for example a SyQuest cartrige)
or to an archive file. Optional data compression, data encryption,
verification, and archive bit setting.
- Restore to any directory, with or without restoring the original
directory tree, and handling of already existing files. Optional date
and empty directories restore.
- Backup of non-AmigaDOS partitions (PC, Mac, UNIX, ...)
- Optional report file for all operations
- Full Intuition interface, AmigaGuide documentation.
However, ABackup is not just one more backup program. This program also
provides unusual features, like:
- Transparent support of High Density floppy disks. Cyclic utilisation of
several disks drives. Supports mixing of Double Density and High Density
floppy disks. Transparent support of the "diskspare.device".
- Asynchronous writes for maximal backup speed
- Data compression can be performed by the "xpk.library" or an external
program. Automatic exclusion of files already compressed.
- Allows full operation automatization : you can, for example, start a
backup just with a double-click over an icon.
- Lots of controls, in order to avoid data loss due to handling errors.
- Supports of the "MultiUserFileSystem" : access rights and owner are
automatically backed up. When restoring files to a partition which is
managed by this filesystem, theses informations will be automatically
restored.
This new version is offering full support for removable disk systems, like
SyQuest, ZIP and Jaz units. This lets you use such systems as large floppy
disks, so your backup will only require a very few removable disks instead
of a huge pile of floppies. Of course, it will also be much faster.