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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Starboard SCSI board woes. (slow as christmas)
Keywords: FFS Mount floppy
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Date: 27 Jun 89 17:15:43 GMT
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In article <672@tolsun.tut.fi> nix@tolsun.oulu.fi (Tero Manninen) writes:
>Now everyting seemed to run well, but after backup I checked the contents
>of one backupped file (type opt h file.Z) and found that it contained
>only carbage :-(

The file probably did not contain garbage.  Since the file ended in .Z
you must have backed up with the compression on. The compressed file will
indeed look like garbage until you decompress it.  Find a file without the
.Z (I think MRBackup does not compress one-block files). Especially look
for a .info, which is usually small. Either that or redo the backup with
the compression turned off.       -- Darren