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From: arb@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Andrew Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: TAR & Disk Corruption.
Keywords: Aaaarrrggghhhh!!
Message-ID: <1377@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: 19 Jun 91 12:55:42 GMT
References: <kelvin.677235945@thed>
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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In article <kelvin.677235945@thed> kelvin@thed (Kelvin Hill) writes:
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>Tar has now been implicated twice in the corruption of hard disks during 
>'normal' operation. While this may be co-incidence, should we be using 
>this product to distribute software in comp.binaries.acorn? I for one
>dont trust it any more! 

Make that three times.  A serious user here at Lancaster tried using Tar
to back up his hard disc, and it worked OK for his applications, but
completely trashed the directories containing his data files.  How can
a program that is only supposed to read from disc write over directories?

>To cut the story short, I have recovered most of the broken directories, 

How do you recover broken directories?

Andrew.