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From: long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Richard C. Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Backup Utility Recommendations...
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Date: 24 Jan 90 20:22:49 GMT
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In article <1990Jan23.174934.4888@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes...
>[about HFS Backup 3 deleted]
>make it confused after a while.  It has a lot of nice features; but you
>can NOT tolerate bugs in backup software.

That was why I switched from HFS Backup to Redux, which I like very much.  I
have discovered a possible bug in v1.5, though.

I did the following :

1. Backup entire hard disk.

2. Erase said hard disk.

3. Restore disk from backups.

Watch as some files are restored, and others are not.  Redux will say
something like "xxx files restored, yyy files not restored" and "Finished, had
problems."  Scrolling back through the restore log window indicates no errors. 
The only way I could discover to retrieve the non-restored files was to start
a backup on the semi-restored hard disk, and look at the list of files Redux
wanted to delete from the backup set.  I then canceled the backup, and
explicitly selected those files for restore, and it all worked.  

This does not happen to me with v1.01, which I have dropped back to.

Anyone else seen this problem?

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