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From: donb@bushido.uucp (Donald Burnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DOS 2.0 Miscellanea (2)
Keywords: HD Backup, BRU
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.014438.3679@bushido.uucp>
Date: 6 Sep 90 01:44:38 GMT
References: <1990Sep4.023112.21016@uncecs.edu>
Organization: Bushido Systems of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Lines: 44

In article <1990Sep4.023112.21016@uncecs.edu> urjlew@uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes:
>
>According to the glossy manual that came with the A3000, there are supposed
>to be two hard disk backup programs that come with the DOS 2.0 system.
>One is the HDBackup backup and restore utility described starting on page
>6-14 in the manual, and the other is BRU described in appendix C. Both
>are supposed to be on the DOS 2.0 Extras disk.
>  * Only they aren't there on my A3000 ! *
>There was a two page stapled addendum describing how to use the distribution
>diskettes to reconstruct the hard disk to the original C= configuration
>and how to boot DOS 1.3, but there were no errata sheets describing
>missing features such as the HD backup facilities. 
>When I was picking up the machine at the dealers, I asked the salesperson
>whether I needed to buy an HD backup program sush as Quarterback. He
>specifically said that it wasn't necessary because a backup utility came
>with the system!
>  
>I would like to hear from other A3000 owners, whether their systems came
>with the promised HD backup programs. I would also like to hear from
>anyone (preferably a C= source) about how I should go about getting
>the missing pieces.
>  
>Oh and I'd like to hear from others what else might be missing.
>-----------------------------------------------
>  Reply-To:  Rostyslaw Jarema Lewyckyj
>             urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP ,  urjlew@unc.bitnet
>       or    urjlew@uncvm1.acs.unc.edu    (ARPA,SURA,NSF etc. internet)
>       tel.  (919)-962-6501

The two backup programs are in the TOOLS directory of your system partition
for AmigaDOS2.0 and probably cant be seen from 1.3OS.. The name is HDBackup
and BRU (from the Command line). HDBACKUP is actually a shell that uses
BRU (BackupRestoreUtility). 
Are you sure this is missing, they may just not be where you expect to 
find them..

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