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From: ndh@stl.stc.co.uk (Neale D Hind )
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: PC-TOOLS v6.0 - Problem with PCBACKUP
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Date: 4 Feb 91 13:20:37 GMT
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PC-TOOLS v6.0 - Problem with PCBACKUP

I am having trouble with the PCBACKUP program supplied as part of
PC-TOOLS v6.0.

The directory does not seem to get properly written to the last disk
when, I assume, there is insufficient space on the final disk to which
files have been written.  Although PCBACKUP prompts for another disk
and appears to write to it, the disk itself is totally blank when
PCBACKUP finishes.

For compare or restore, this means that the directory always needs to be
rebuilt (a tedious task feeding in all the disks of the backup set to
be read) before the compare/restore can commence.

Anyone else had this problem?  If so, is there a solution?
(I haven't yet had any luck getting through to Central Points UK
support).

As part of the current PC-TOOLS v6.0 debate, with the exception of
PCBACKUP, I too have continued with v4.30 rather than the v6.0 PCSHELL.

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Neale D. Hind - (N.D.Hind@stl.stc.co.uk)