Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!sjk
From: sjk@ut-emx.UUCP (bob)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Backup Program Reccomendation
Summary: MRBackup experience
	 not good
Message-ID: <22300@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 89 04:11:20 GMT
References: <3631@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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I  just tried to use the latest posted version of MRBackup to
backup my three partitions on my Q80. It didn't make it through any
of them sucessfully.  It crashed often; I could not figure out why,
and it came up with an error it couldn't explain often. This error
I think arose when it compressed a file that got bigger after
compression. It would report that fact, then try to write it anyway
and come up with an error.  No clue what it was.
In short, it seemed very flakey which surprised me greatly as I
have heard good things about it.  Did I miss something, or are
there really some problems with it?

Now, I'm left with an un-backupped disk, and the prosepect of
shelling out $50 for Quarterback or something. Although I'd gladly
fork out a few hundred for a tape unit, if there were existing
drivers and software. Why can't I just buy a SCSI tape unit, plug
it in and say backup dh0: to tp0: ?
Then again, why can't dos recognize that I meant delete when I type
in delere or somethig similar?  |- >

Has anybody had better luck with this program? If so, can you shed
some light on what I did wrong?

Thanks

Scot
sjk@astro.as.utexas.edu

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