Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!udel!new
From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Key n already set...
Message-ID: <21241@snow-white.udel.EDU>
Date: 6 Jun 90 16:52:26 GMT
References: <1990Jun6.091317.18214@cat.fulcrum.bt.co.uk>
Reply-To: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <1990Jun6.091317.18214@cat.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> sie@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Simon Raybould) writes:
>Last time I got this, I copied all of the files to floppy and re-formatted
>the hard disk. The problem with this is that the date stamps are lost.

Try using the "clone" option on both copies (to and from).  This preserves
the datestamps and the protection bits.

>Is there a better way to patch the file system ?

Yes. I don't know of any good FD hard disk hackers, but DiskMechanic usually
works for me. It also comes with a pretty good manual explaining the
disk organization (both OFS and FFS) that will help you find the problem.

>Is there a backup utility that will preserve the date stamps when
>I re-load the files ?

I think most of the backup utilities out there restore the datestamps.
I asked a few months back and the overwhelming choice was Quarterback
for backups. I don't know whether it keeps the timestamps.
	    -- Darren