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From: alee@elaine39.stanford.edu (Andrew Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Can't RESTORE a file from a BACKUP set
Summary: Can RESTORE all other files in the set
Keywords: BACKUP RESTORE archive bit
Message-ID: <alee.663670337@elaine39.stanford.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 91 08:52:17 GMT
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I'm posting this on behalf of my brother, who has no net access.

He has two sets of BACKUP disks produced by IBM DOS 3.30.  He's trying to
RESTORE them on the same machine, now running MS-DOS 4.01.  He's using
RESTORE /S, and it restores the set OK until it gets to one particular
file.  It restores the first part of this file, and then when he has to
change disks, it gives an error like "Unable to restore file", which the
manual says is some kind of file sharing error.  It continues on to the
next file on the disk without trouble, and finishes restoring the rest of
the BACKUP set fine.

My brother is using an XT clone with a 30M hard disk (no large partition)
and no network.  He tried to RESTORE them with SHARE both installed and
not installed.  Both backup sets, which are of different files, have
the same problem, each with one particular file.  My brother looked at
the files that RESTORE put on the hard disk, and found that the files
which RESTORE couldn't finish restoring had the archive bit set, while
none of the other files did.  (The files on the BACKUP disks all have
the same attributes, and are in the weird BACKUP format.)

So, does anybody know what's going on with this, and how my brother can
retrieve the files off his BACKUP disks?

	Andrew Lee
	alee@portia.stanford.edu