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- From: monster@mbear.apana.org.au (Martin Ozolins)
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- Subject: Re: uucico 1.16 jb.01 (was: uucico)
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- Date: 3 Jan 93 10:27:12 PST
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- In article <1993Jan1.231731.22680@mail.cornell.edu> chris@132.236.236.45 (Christopher A. Wolf) writes:
- > In article <Geoff.6hxq@equinox.gen.nz> Geoff@equinox.gen.nz (Geoff Mccaughan) writes:
- > > Hugh D. Gamble (hugh@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca) wrote:
- > >
- > > I also use Ami-Back, primarily for the ability to back up multiple volumes,
- > > but reliable???
- > >
- > > From my experience Ami-Back 2.0 is as buggy as all hell [try running it with
- > > enforcer on]. I recently copied a bunch of stuff from one drive to another
- > > and found I ended up with corrupted files. It took me a while to work out
- > > why, at the same time I was running Ami-Back, which was busy stomping on
- > > memory.
- > >
- >
- > I use AmiBack to backup (and occasionally restore) several hundred megs
- > of data each weak. Enforcer is constantly running on my system. I have
- > never seen the final release version of AmiBack cause an enforcer hit and
- > have never had it corrupt my system or my backup data. I was one of the
- > beta-testers for the 2.0 release and helped Gary track down several hits
- > that were present in beta-versions but to the best of my knowledge the
- > final release was enforcer clean. (Most of my testing concentrated on the
- > tape-backup and restore aspects though so its possible if you are using
- > floppies you may be experiencing problems that I have not encountered on my
- > configuration.)
- >
- > What revision of the program do you have? I believe the current revision
- > is 2.0f. If you have an earlier 2.0 revision you can call up the
- > MoonLighter software support BBS in Orlando, Fla. and download the 2.0f
- > upgrade for free. The BBS number is in the front of your AmiBack manual.
- > If the latest revision does not fix your problem I would suggest you
- > contact MoonLighter tech support via phone or BBS and describe your
- > complete configuration and the problems you are having. They are usually
- > very helpful and knowledgeable.
- >
-
- I agree, Amiback 2.0f has not given me ANY Enforcer hits on my system whilst
- backing up to Floppies
-
- I tried calling the BBS ( from Australia ) but had too many problems trying to
- conncet so I gave up.
-
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