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Volume 3, Issue 4
1 April 1987
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Review Article| April 01 1987

Comparing Backup Software Available to Purchase

John Minott;
John Minott
Columbus Computer Society
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David Sherman
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2377-620X
Print ISSN: 8756-5196
© MCB UP Limited
1987
OCLC Micro (1987) 3 (4): 21–22.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055853

This article reviews the performance of three commercial backup programs, run on two different types of machines. Because the DOS BACKUP command is slow, many PC users with hard disk systems use such programs instead. The programs we tested are:

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