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From: ross@isis.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Comments on FASTBACK disk backup utility?
Message-ID: <1644@isis.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Feb-87 00:41:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 16 00:41:16 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Feb-87 20:14:18 EST
Reply-To: ross@isis.UUCP (Ross McConnell)
Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS
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In article <195@grinch.grinch.UUCP> luis@grinch.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
>I have been using FASTBACK 5.03 for some time now, and have had NO problems
>with it what-so-ever.  At first it was dificult to figure out how to use
>the restore program, but eventually I figured that out.  It's documentation
>needs major improvment, but the program is well worth it...
>
 I would generally agree - FASTBACK is a very fast and reliable backup
program. HOWEVER, I have had one occasion where FASTBACK was not able to
restore a very large file from a set of backup floppies. It aborted with
the message "Too many errors" or something like that. This was a file
extending over approx 8 floppies (360K). FASTBACK was able to recover from
several errors on Floppy 2 but died on floppy 3. I cannot be sure that the
diskettes were not somehow damaged between backup and restore.
 However, now whenever I have an important backup, one I can't live without,
after doing the backup I do an FRESTORE in verify mode before I
stash the floppies away. This makes me feel a little more confident.