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- From: aa783@ccn.cs.dal.ca (David Oakes)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: HDBackup is flakey, isn't it??
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 16:33:43 GMT
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- TAOBERLY@DELPHI.COM (TAOBERLY@news.delphi.com) wrote:
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- : I tried HDBackup for the first - and probably the last time - the other
- : night. Am I doing something wrong, or is this program really flakey?
- : I managed to get it to work, for the most part, but I kept getting weird
- : "Not A DOS Disk" errors when trying to restore my partitions, and
- : sometimes only by clicking CANCEL (!) three times did it read the disks
- : properly. Then even though I had it set up to use df0: and df1: it
- : couldn't decide a set pattern for whive drive would accept the next
- : backup disk, and later it completely forgot about df1:. I'm going to be
- : downloading Abackup (v5. ??) shortly, but was wondering if there is a
- : way to make HDBackup work properly?
-
- The best solution that I have ever found for HDBackup and the BRU utility
- itself is to enter the following from a shell:
-
- Delete HDBackup
- Delete BRU
-
- There is no right way to actually use them, since no matter what they
- will eventually lose data within the backup archive and will present
- constant problems with disks, etc.
-
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