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From: trd10523@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Help w/Hard Disk Backup
Message-ID: <113300168@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 22 Nov 89 10:38:47 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!trd10523    Nov 21 13:21:00 1989


Help! I have been using a 5 meg Profile with my Apple //e for six years. I
have been using Backup // as a backup program the entire time. Three weeks
ago, I got a 1 meg //gs. I proceeded to install the Profile on the //gs
(yes, I do have the right version of the interface card ROM) and everything
is great. EXCEPT, Backup // no longer works since system 5.0 uses the
extended file type (which ProDOS 8 chokes on). Thus, Backup // returns
the message "UNSUPPORTED STORAGE TYPE" and aborts. I got a new copy of the
Apple // SCSI Utilities Disk, which has a 1985 version of Backup // on it,
and I still have the same problem.

The question is this: Has anyone out there fixed Backup (or P8) to make it
work? Or, can someone recommend a new backup program that either runs under
P8 AND reads extended files, OR a program that runs under GS/OS (16 bit)?

Please e-mail replies, since I don't read this newsgroup regularly (but I'll
try).

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