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From: yarnall@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Yarnall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: MRbackup 4.0b
Message-ID: <1990Oct8.024128.4481@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu>
Date: 8 Oct 90 02:41:28 GMT
Organization: Math Department, University of South Carolina (ahem; The USC)
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I got MRbackup 4.0b when it came out (some time ago), fiddled with it long
enough to get the colors set the way I wanted them, and didn't mess with it
again.  Then yesterday, I get to thinking that I should back up my hard disk.
the only backup utility I had around was MRbackup, so I decided to give it a
whirl.

It seemed to work very well.  I checked the disks after the backup was
complete, and noticed that a few .info files were missing.  Odd, I thought,
but not a problem.  I used the Utilities tool to decompress a few of the
archived files to RAM:, and they seemed okay.  

Then I made the bad boo-boo.  Now that I had my backup, I decided that, since
my drive was very badly fragmented, I would format/restore it to clean it up.
I did this, and again, MRbackup seemed to work fine.  I noticed that the
drive had considerably less on it than it did before, though (down from 47%
full to 40% full...).  Everything seemed to be there, though, so I was a bit
confused.  I wandered about the disk, running the programs, until I started
to run across file after file that was incorrectly restored.  MRbackup had a
bad copy of these files (in compressed form) on its backup set.  All in all,
I've found about 10 programs/data files that were munged (so far).  Most are
easily recoverable...

Has anyone else found these bugs in this program?  Has there been a
subsequent release of MRbackup?  I had been planning to send in the shareware
fee if it worked well.

Thanks for listening to a rather long-winded little letter,

-ken
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