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From: swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Joel Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HD Backup problems
Message-ID: <1946@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Date: 1 Nov 89 00:01:45 GMT
References: <2926@nigel.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: swan@jolnet.UUCP (Joel Swan)
Organization: Media Specialties LTD
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In article <2926@nigel.udel.EDU> new@udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
:Earlier I requested recommendations for a hard-disk to floppy
:backup program.  The overwhelming response was Quarterback.
:It was described as reliable, fast, and friendly. I got

[some editing to save bits]

:Quarterback (according to possibly reliable sources :-)
:multitasks well and does not crash. It was described as
:better than FastBack (for those in IBM land (like I used to be))
:and better than MRBackup (which I must admit has gotten
:much better). Quarterback is said to be up to version 2.2.
:
:Thanks for all the responses (and fish :-).
:It looks like if I can't get my tape drive working I'll
:have to get Quarterback and start working with
:those floppy-things again :-).  -- Darren

Ooooh. Ouch.  While I was one of the respondents that recommended
Quarterback, I must report this disaster.  Two days after replying to
you, I backed up my HD using Quaterback with the "read-after-write" mode
ON.  The next night, I had some HD errors so I decided to re-format and
restore using the new backup (I had luckily made a new set because I had
a pile of new disks sitting there).

Yowser!  Almost every disk that had been written to in df1: was unreadable!
I lost about 1/5 of my data forever (or until I could re-download from
PLINK).  Luckily I had my old backup on disk.  I used a separate 40meg
partition to try and recover what I could from the bad disks.  using the
QB report generator, I was able to easily see what files were missing.
After two days of downloading and pasting my HD back together, I'm almost
as good as new.

So I ask - HOW COULD QUARTERBACK SAY MY FILES WERE READ AND OK WHEN THEY
WERE NOT?!?!  THe feature sure seems worthless if it doesn't work, no?
I had never had any problems before.  I have backed up and restored
80 megs worth at least 5 times w/no problems.

Don't let this scare you from QB though. it may have been some sort of
fluke.  Still, my eyes are about to fall from my head form looking at
som many files and keeping them all in line (a million thanks to CLICKDOSII
and a boo hiss for SID.  SID keeps locking up while doubleclicking on
a directory while the drive is active. Ouch)

HAppy Halloween!

Joel