Backup solutions for RISC OS

"Be safe not sorry!"

	Name	Author	License	Price	Version
	Hard Disc Companion	Beebug Ltd	Commercial	£ 25.00	2.61
	HardBack	Theo Markettos	"Artistic"	-	3.000
	BackMan	Matthew Sackman	Shareware	£ 10.00	1.64.3
	FCFS	S. Monesi & N. Craig-Wood	Shareware	£ 10.00	1.10
	Back it	Quantum Software	Shareware	£ 10.00	1.53

	HD Companion	HardBack	BackMan	FCFS	Back it
Source	Any	Any	Any	Whole disc	Any
Destination	Any	Any	Any	Any	Any
Removable devices supported
Compression	2 levels			8 levels
Intelligent use of disc space
Scheduling	External	External	Internal		Internal
Speed
Global history
Full backup
Incremental
Differential
Auto verify
Backup check
Unattended operation
Ignore/include files
Ignore/include filetypes		Only include
Multitasking
Image files option
Backup size	Unlimited	Unlimited	Not specified	Whole source device	Whole destination device
Command line
Auto formatting
Pause backup
Stop backup
Auto full restore	Full/partial	Full/partial		Full/partial

Backup of a directory on a parallel Zip device (size 58Mb, 1884 objects)

	HD Companion	HardBack	BackMan	FCFS	FCFS	Back it	Back it
Compression	Max	Yes	-	Max	Compact	No	Yes
Verbose	3m 21s	6m 29s	-	7m	not tested	-	-
No verbose	-	5m 16s	-	-	-	7m 10s	-
Monotask	-	-	6m 30s	4m 52s	2m 50s	-	10m 45s
Backup size	55Mb	54Mb	Same as source	53Mb	69Mb	Same as source	48Mb