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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Path: sparky!uunet!pgroup!lfm
- From: lfm@pgroup.com (Larry Meadows)
- Subject: Filemaker pro & Dumper interaction?
- Message-ID: <BxAwIx.Bv1@pgroup.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:32:57 GMT
- Organization: The Portland Group, Portland, OR
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- We just had an unpleasant problem when a Mac IIcx somehow got it's
- disk trashed and wouldn't boot. God knows how this happened but that
- is probably the subject of another post. In any case, we've been
- using macdump for daily incrementals and occasional fulls, and I've
- restored another Mac twice from scratch without loosing anything, so
- I initialized the disk and ran restore.
-
- Seemed to work ok, but then we found that one of our Filemaker Pro (2.0)
- files was 0 length! This file changes every day, so we went back one day
- on the incremental -- same problem. Went back one more day, to Friday
- night, and the file was there.
-
- The guess is that a network user left the Filemaker Pro database open
- and the Dumper was unable to read it. So I have several questions:
- 1. Is this likely or possible?
- 2. Shouldn't Dumper give an error indication?
- 3. Does anyone plan to update Dumper to fix these problems?
- 4. Is there another (free or otherwise) mac backup program that will
- allow me to back up to tape on a Unix box, that also has better
- error recovery, etc?
-
- Thanks in advance, I'll summarize if it looks worthwhile.
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- Larry Meadows The Portland Group
- lfm@pgroup.com
-