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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Hard disk backup problems
Message-ID: <33086@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 12 Jul 89 18:45:17 GMT
References: <10029@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <10029@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU (HARTKOPF JEFFREY M) writes:
>[...]  When I tried to restore the disk using
>Backup II, it restored the entire first disk of the 3, but then stopped
>with the message "Operation complete", which it certainly wasn't!  It still
>had 2 disks to go!
>
>So, any suggestions or solutions this time?  Anyone who's familiar with
>Backup II?  If nothing else, at least is there a way to restore the files
>manually?  Thanks *very* much for any answers.
>
>Jeff Hartkopf

As I recall (from a similar experience several years ago, where I ended up
restoring some files manually), Backup II stores each file in a sequential
clump of blocks, so you can read the blocks into memory manually and BSAVE
the files manually (and fix up their filetypes/auxtypes).  I don't remember
whether the clumps were *really* sequential, or whether it just happened that
way because nonfragmented ProDOS files are already that way.

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