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From: sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Comments on FASTBACK disk backup utility?
Message-ID: <229@uvicctr.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Feb-87 02:39:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 16 02:39:20 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Feb-87 18:41:42 EST
References: <4394@curly.ucla-cs.UCLA.EDU> <3237@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP (S. John Banner)
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. Canada
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In article <3237@j.cc.purdue.edu> tim@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Timothy Lange) writes:
>Using DS/DD disks it works fine, I have tried using some SS/DD disks
>that have worked with no bad spots formatted by DOS and they usually
>fail under FastBack.  It is quite picky about disks.  If you are in the
>middle of a backup and it gets a disk error, it will abort and you will
>have to start the backup over.  A pain if you are on disk 88!  

Funny, I have never had any problems what so ever, and I use the cheapest
ss/dd disks I can buy for my backups (for just about everything
actually :-).

                      S. John Banner

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