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From: jmmaye@monsanto.com (Jim Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: PC-TOOLS v6.0 - Problem with PCBACKUP
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.224716.3074@monsanto.com>
Date: 6 Feb 91 22:54:16 GMT
References: <3997@stl.stc.co.uk> <1991Feb05.002931.20870@hoss.unl.edu>
Organization: Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO
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> 
> I take it you don't have the "save directory on hard drive" option set.
> I always use this option, and am *never* asked for the previous last disk.
> Obviously, this is useless if your whole drive goes kaput, but for one-
> and two-file restores, it's a great help and eliminates the last-disk 
> problem.
> 
> This, of course, doesn't really fix your problem.  I haven't had it.  I
> *have* had trouble with it saving the directory on the wrong disk;  it
> seems to happen when I'm using both A: and B:, AND the backup data ends
> in the middle of the B: drive, AND I've stuck a disk into the A: drive.
> I get around it by not closing the door on the A: drive until I'm sure it
> needs it, if I'm getting near the end of a backup.
> 
> Example:  PCBACKUP reports 96% free and is writing to disk 33 in drive A.  
> It asks for a disk in drive B.  I put it in and close the door.  I put the 
> following disk in drive A *but I don't close the door*.  If PCBACKUP 
> asks for disk 34 in drive A (as it tends to do in this situation) I take
> the disk from drive B and slap it into A, replacing 35 which I had inserted
> previously.
> 
I had a similar problem with a very early copy of ver 6.0.  I recently
got tired of not getting the directory on the last disk and called
Central Point.  They promptly sent out a replacement at no cost. It is
now a very nice program.

Jim Mayer