I just read the 'Something old, something new: the Amiga Fast File System, past, present and future by Olaf Barthel. Great article! I love the robustness of the Amiga and the fact that I can just turn it off. The big question that doesn't seem to have a good answer yet is "How do I efficiently backup and recover my system in case of a head crash or file corruption?" I have seen attempts to do this for workstations and there never seems to be a great solution.

You could backup your system to another storage device.

• Great for recovery of a lost hard drive, but not so great in point in time recovery.
• Not many people want to even be bothered in backing up their systems until they lose it!

You could use a tool over a LAN/internet connection to backup your data.

• Extremely slow and nearly impossible to recover a hard drive in you'll be out of service for days!

You could run with a mirrored disk.

• great for recovery of lost hard drive and good at getting things back to their current state.
• Not so great for recovering to a point of time.

I would like to see a built into the file system archiving utility that would do the following:

• Compress data and only save just the changes after the initial backup and update the initial file backup when the file has changed after a point in time.
• Be capable of storing to a different device. (Another hard drive)
• Save changes and back version of files.
• Be seamless to the end user. Use the cpu and disk when nothing else is happing. Changes to files would be recorded right after they happen.

P.S. My next computer will be an AmigaOne as soon as the OS is released!

Thanks,
Jeffrey Rabut
EDS - Enterprise Storage