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- From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
- Subject: Re: Re: System 6.0
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.174241.19951@utstat.uucp>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
- References: <1992Jul27.111653.23387@crash.cts.com> <1992Jul27.204528.7754@utstat.uucp> <70664@apple.Apple.COM>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:42:41 GMT
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- In article <70664@apple.Apple.COM> dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons) writes:
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- [ ]
- >
- >>Finally, is Achiver (supplied with 6.0) reliable? I've had odd experiences
- >>with it not resoring a volume to one of a lessor size. Or is this common?
- >
- >Are you restoring file-by-file or whole-disk? What sort of oddness did
- >you get?
-
- I did a volume backup and then restore. I had a 30 meg partition, backed it
- up( there were only 20megs on that partition) and then tried to restor it
- to the new partitioned disk. This may just be normal, but it would not
- restore it to a 25meg partion. It kept giving a checksum error. It may
- be the case that you have to restore the data to the exact size of partition,
- but that seems odd as you may want to put it onto a new drive which may not have exactly identical partion sizes.
-
- Would an alternative be to dump everything on a partition into a folder
- and do a folder( file by file) backup?
-
- I did try to restor the 20 megs to an HFS 80 meg HS, but that failed
- claiming the disk was damaged ( after putting everything on). Also
- restoring over Appletalk usinf System 7.0 failed[ immediate crash].
-
- Philip McDunnough
- philip@utstat.toronto.edu
-