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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Apple's HDBlowup software
Message-ID: <70500032@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 19 Sep 90 05:38:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Sep 19 00:38:00 1990


I have absolutely had it with Apple's "HDBackup" utility.  It should
be renamed "HDBlowup".  Currently, it exhibits at least two fatal
bugs:

(1) If you keep inserting 800K disks that are not initialized (a
somewhat flakey disk that you are hoping will work with a good
physical insertion), it eventually crashes to the Finder saying:

	The Application "HDBackup" has unexpectedly quit

This has happened to me twice, on the 42nd disk of a 50Mb backup.

(2) I have a set of 1.4Mb disks, the result of a previous backup.
For many of the disks (i.e. HD40.6, and now, HD40.7), I get the
brain-damaged message,

	There isn't enough finder memory to work with the
	disk "HD40.7".

This is absolute baloney.  I can open the disk easily with the finder.
To be safe, I added 10K to the finder memory allocation, and I
increased the HDBackup allotment to 512K (instead of the standard
384K).  The bug still occurs.


So what's the best commercial replacement for HDBackup, at $50 or
less?


Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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