Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ingr!b8!paulj
From: paulj@b8.UUCP ( Joey Paul x4129 )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: backup programs
Summary: strike three
Message-ID: <591@b8.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 89 12:10:48 GMT
References: <44566@bbn.COM> <40970021@hpindda.HP.COM> <2503@husc6.harvard.edu>
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, Al
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In article <2503@husc6.harvard.edu>, waldman2@husc8.HARVARD.EDU (Bruce Waldman) writes:
> I have had lots of trouble using Fastback to back up files
> on my XT and AT clones.  The symptoms are: after backing up
> some number of disks, the terminal hangs, with the light on
> the floppy drive on but the drive apparently not writing. 
> This happens on all the floppy drives (1.2m, 360k, 1.44 m),
> so the problem is not a faulty drive.  Sometimes this happens
> during the first diskette write, sometimes after 10 or 15
> diskettes have been written.  It is totally unpredictable.
> Unfortunately, i have similar symptoms with PC-FULLBAK, 
> another backup program with a somewhat friendlier interface.
> Any suggestions on what might be wrong with my PC's?

I've checked problems for 3 different businesses (actually one was a church)
who were having problems using Fastback.  All three had the same symptoms:
XT clones using Fastback were unable to use the backup - Fastback wouldn't
restore what it had written and, of course, DOS wouldn't either.  Finally
wound up reformatting the floppies and doing a backup from DOS so they
wouldn't be "up the creek" in case anything happened.  No idea why this
happened (in three totally separate cases) but from what I've seen I won't
use it.