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From: tomf@cms2.UUCP (Tom Fortner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: backup/restore problem
Keywords: backup/restore ?
Message-ID: <293@cms2.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 90 23:52:51 GMT
References: <3869@iitmax.IIT.EDU#
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Organization: Christian Medical & Dental Society
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In article <3869@iitmax.IIT.EDU# vonb@iitmax.iit.edu (Robert Von Borstel) writes:
#Having never needed backup/restore (use a QIC-40 drive), I'm trying to
#help a friend restore some 'backup' diskettes.  The command I use is
#'restore a: c:\*.* /s'.  The system then prompts for the first diskette,
#displays the backup date, does some 'disk crunching' and then asks for  
#the succeeding diskettes, until it finishes.  Problem is nothing gets
#restored.
#
#These diskettes were 'backuped' under msdos 3.2 on a tandy machine.  I
#tried restoring them on his machine, and then my machine using msdos 4.01
#which is supposingly backward compatible, but I get the same results.
#
#Looking at the diskettes (dir), I see the individual files, and the
#'backupid.@@@' file.  I understand that dos 3.3+ saves everything in
#1 huge file.  So am I missing something obvious or what?  Also is there
#any technical reference that explains the octal fields in the 'backupid.@@@'
#file?  Thanx in advance.
#
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Significant changes were made in the code for the dos backup and restore
utilities and the 4.x versions are NOT compatible with any 3.x versions.
Tom

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