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From: jay@umd5.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: BACKUP problems using 3.0
Message-ID: <493@umd5.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-May-85 12:25:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  3 12:25:09 1985
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Due to pressure applied by hardware, I found it necessary to back up all my
files from my AT fixed to to 1.2 megabyte diskettes.  The process went
smoothly until I tried to restore the nine diskettes.  RESTORE told me that
my diskettes were out of sequence and refused to let me continue.  After a
little bit of exploration on (what I originally thought was the only)
offending disk, I found that BACKUP had marked the size of the file as zero
and likewise the starting cluster.  I marked them (using Norton) and tried
again.  The RESTORE program stopped when it finished processing the disk
I had marked.  Apparently, not only had BACKUP mismarked the size and
starting cluster, it also marked the diskette as the last last one in
the chain.  This same thing happened on three of the nine diskettes.
Has anybody out there experienced anything remotely similar
when backing up an AT hard disk on to floppies? 
-- 
Jay Elvove       ..!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umd5!jay