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- From: nma95nbr@lustudat.student.lu.se (Niklas Brunlid)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: ANSWER: How to backup MAC partition without MAC software
- Date: 19 Feb 1996 21:42:37 GMT
- Organization: Lund University
- Message-ID: <2033.6623T30T1189@lustudat.student.lu.se>
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- In article "ANSWER: How to backup MAC partition without MAC software" Mark P
- Allen said:
-
- >Hi slider,
-
- >In a message of 10 Feb 96 you wrote to All:
-
- > s> for block copy of the parttion..Only drawback is you can only backup and
- > s> restore the entire parttion (not individual files....well some can) bu
- > s> this is no problem as most people want to backup the entire partition
- > s> anyway. I have been doing this for a while with my Emplant parttion with
- > s> no problem backing up or restoring. laterzzzz.
-
- >The main problem being that one often does not want to restore the entire
- >backup, overwriting everything on the partition in the process. Also, an
- >image backup has to be restored to a partition of exactly the same size (to
- >the cylinder and block), making repartitioning a bit of a headache.
-
- >Otherwise, you're right, it's the only alternative to the real thing.
-
- >Regards,
-
- > Mark
-
- >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- > mpa@wvision.iig.com.au Cairns
- > Wishful Vision Australia
-
- Is the copy-freeze a bug in MacHandler? If you try to copy everything you can
- bet at least one or two of the files will make the process freeze...
- If this could me cured, you could use any Amiga backup system that can make
- exact copies, i.e. comments, dates, protectionbits.
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- <tsb> F I S H E R M A N
- - Amiga since '89
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- nma95nbr@lustudat.student.lu.se
- <tsb> Random tag line coming up...
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- It would be nice to say that the tiny frogs thought long and hard about the
- new flower, about life in the old flower, about the need to explore, about
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