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From: skip@gatech.CSNET (Skip Addison)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: BACKUP problems using 3.0
Message-ID: <33@gatech.CSNET>
Date: Sun, 12-May-85 17:40:47 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 12 17:40:47 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
>  ...
>  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
>  
>  

There is a severe bug in the DOS 3.0 BACKUP command.  It doesn't work.  I'm
using a preliminary version of DOS 3.1 which doesn't have that problem.  IBM
is now shipping 3.1.

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