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From: mhg@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Mark H. Granoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Help! Can't restore from FastBack backup!
Keywords: FastBack
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Date: 30 Aug 88 01:43:21 GMT
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Reply-To: mhg@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Granoff)
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Help!  I (foolishly) didn't heed the warnings of some time ago about
FastBack not being quite as "wonderful" as it claimed.  I have now
fallen victim to the claims which I ignored.

In an effort to upgrade from DOS 2.11 to DOS 3.10, I used FastBack to
backup 15+ MB from my 20MB hard drive (Seagate ST225).  I reformated,
reinstalled FastBack (v5.13) and invoked FRESTORE.  To make a long
story short, I could not restore 2.4MB of data and executables.  (My
system is an AT&T 6300 Rom rev 1.21, 640KB mem, 1 floppy, 20 MB drive,
monochrome AT&T monitor if it makes a diff).

The error FRESTORE gives me is 'Invalid directory' (or something like
that).  Also, the date of the backup (on a couple of disks) is wrong,
and therefore FRESTORE won't read from them.

Is there *anything* I can do to repair these disks so FRESTORE will
read them?  I can probably fish up the executables from floppies, but
the data files I lost are not on any other media.  I think it's safe
to say I will not use FastBack again...

*Any* suggestions will be *greatly* appreciated!  (Please reply
directly to me.)

Thanks.