FastBack Plus

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Overview

FastBack Plus (FB+) was backup software available for MS DOS and Macintosh systems from ~1987 to ~1992.

Its primary competition was PC-Fullbak by Westlake Data Corporation, which used both a proprietary disk-sector and file system format (i.e. the backup disks can't even be copied by conventional means).

Although the backup disks created by FB+ are readable from modern systems, the files they contain (typically one file per disk) appear to be compressed in a proprietary format which cannot be decoded by any standard tools. Recovering data from disks created by FB+, then, generally requires running FB+, which has its own set of problems.

Running FastBack Plus

First, this presumes that you have a copy of it to run. It appears to be freely available from here, though I have not tried the download.

Second, it crashed when I tried to run it from Windows 98. It may be that it would work fine if I booted to command-line only.

Third, it will only restore files to their original locations -- but you can select which files to restore, and skip over any files in the root folder.

Reference

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