Bugs and Pitfalls in The Vault

The following are known bugs or problems with The Vault 3.00. They all existed in previous versions of The Vault.

  1. Do not back up from a floppy disk to itself.

  2. Do not use dual mode on a single-floppy system.

  3. Do not format disks in dual mode.

  4. Be careful of Archive Bit backups. In order to make subsequent Cleanup Incrementals work correctly, The Vault must change the date on files which were too old to be backed up because of their date but were backed up anyway because their archive bit was set. There is no way to avoid this problem, because TOS really needs two archive bits – one which you clear when you make an incremental backup and one which you clear on a full backup.