What is Backmatic?

Most computer users don't back up nearly often enough. Remembering to do an incremental backup at the end of the working day is often one chore too many. Backmatic is a tool designed to solve that problem. It's an INIT (with a cdev) that scans your hard disk whenever you shut down and backs up all files that have been changed since it last ran. The backup can be to floppies or to a folder on your hard disk or server.

Since you may neither want to back up all changed files nor have the room or time to do so, the ability to exclude files is important. Backmatic has wide-ranging and easy-to-use exclusion abilities.

Backmatic isn't quick (it scans all the disks on-line before acting), but it is utterly reliable. Backing up is an essential pan of safe computing, and the one thing that stops users doing it regularly is that it's tedious. For automating a daily backup, there's no better utility.

Bobker, Steven. (July 1990). Bobker's Dozen. MacUser. (pg. 48).

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Architecture

Motorola 68K

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac