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- On 20 May 96 at 13:37, Fred Salerno wrote:
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- >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.
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- 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.
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