Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!wa3wbu!john
From: john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Backup incompatabilities between MS-DOS 3.2 AND MS-DOS 3.3
Message-ID: <479@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 88 02:37:30 GMT
References: <102@tron.UUCP>
Organization: WA3WBU, Marysville,PA
Lines: 22
Keywords: archive, backup, ms-dos, pc, ibm
Summary: this is true

In article <102@tron.UUCP>, celozzi@tron.UUCP (Dominic J Celozzi) writes:
> Someone I work with was complaining that Back-ups using MS-DOS 3.2 are not
> compatable with those using MS-DOS 3.3?  That is, if someone updated to

    This appears to be true. I know it's different than 3.1. I have been
running 3.3 for almost a year now and recently gave a freind a LARGE file
that I had put on several floppies with DOS backup. He could not restore
it. It appears (and Im no DOS wizard), that in 3.3, the entire backup
is on one filename. Everything is compacted in one file. On 3.1/3.2
I beleive the files at least showed individual file names when you did
a DIR although you could not "copy" them. This should really pose a 
problem. Supposing you "update" your system to 3.3 and then re-do a 
backup and your all set.

					John



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