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Re: How to backup an executor partition??
On 20 May 96 at 13:37, Fred Salerno wrote:
>I use the UMSDOS file system so it runs on an existing ms-dos partition.
>Then I boot into dos and run a normal tape-backup program.
A word of warning to those who do this: make sure your tape backup
program backs up _and restores_ _everything_ (if you have the space, do
a test restore to another drive/directory to make sure). I say this
because from experience here at least one package (DosArch, I think)
fails to restore zero-length files. This has the potential to trash parts
of the filesystem from Linux's point of view (e.g. /dev). Others fail to
recreate empty directories, which is less serious but still irritating.
If you use the UMSDOS partition only to store Mac files for Executor,
then I guess there's less of a problem, but making sure your backup
system can actually restore what you backed up is good practice anyway.