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- From: uwek@ifi.uio.no (Uwe Sigurd Valentin Kubosch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: ABackup 5.10
- Date: 30 Jan 1996 10:47:20 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
- Message-ID: <4eksvo$iqt@glitnir.ifi.uio.no>
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- In-reply-to: Adrian Boone's message of 25 Jan 1996 11:16:48 GMT
-
- In article <4e7or0$663@bsdi201.britain.eu.net>
- Adrian Boone <a.boone@kainos.com> writes:
-
- > >When I try to 'Backup Files & Dirs' ABackup scans through a
- > >few files and then says it cannot find a file. The file
- > >exists and is always in a subdirectory.
-
- > >Trying to backup different dirs mostly gives the same error,
- > >though some dirs with few or no subdirs can be scanned ok.
- > >I have not registered (beeing extremly poor).
- > >I am using MUFS (beeing rather paranoid).
- >
- > I don't think it's anything to do with not registering or using MUFS or even
- > with ABackup. I have recently had the same problem when backing
- > up my HD and so far as I can work it out, the problem lies with
- > the file itself. I had a number
- > of files on different partitions which are "there" when you do a dir/list but
- > cannot be found when you try to do anything to them. They all have accented
- > characters in the filename and I think the problem arose when using an old
- > coverdisk version of QBTools to salvage the partition - it always complained
- > about "file in wrong hash chain" with any file having an accent (it doesn't
- > like links either) - probably because these are newer features of the file
- > system.
-
- This does not look like my problem. I tried deleteing one of the
- files and that worked fine.
-
- I discovered that the files ALWAYS are in a
- sub-sub-sub-sub-subdirectory (4 or 5 levels below root, can't
- remember exactly).
-
- Anything fishy with the filesystems?
-
- Filename or pathname too long?
-
- > Anyway, the way to get around it is to move the offending file into a dummy
- > directory and create a comment for the directory (using the DOS filenote
- > command) starting with the word "SKIPME" (see the ABackup guide). When it goes
- > to build the directory list, ABackup will automatically skip this directory
- > containing the "missing" file.
-
- I'll use the "SKIPME" on the directory in question, just to get a
- backup ok. Last backup was 010195 ...
-
- > The only way to delete the "missing" file is to
- > backup the partition, reformat it, and restore the partition again.
-
- Well, as i said I don't think so.
-
- > Hope this helps,
- > Adrian
-
- Thanks a lot!
-
- > P.S. There have been some postings regarding people being unable to restore
- > files backed up using ABackup - I used the XPK NUKE library for compression and
- > had no problems, though I would recommend trying to restore some of your backed
- > up files to a different partition just to check it works before you go
- > formatting or deleting anything.
-
- Lately I tried the XPKRAKE 020 and it's better and faster than
- NUKE as far as I can tell.
-
- uwek
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