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From: fleming@nvuxk.UUCP (George W. Fleming)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: FASTBACK PLUS
Keywords: backup
Message-ID: <441@nvuxk.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 89 20:24:54 GMT
Organization: Bellcore
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When I purchased a copy of FASTBACK PLUS (Version 2.0 I believe) few months
ago and tried to use it, I came across an interesting phenomenon...

Doing a backup on my IBM PS/2 Model 70-121 with 3 1/2 inch floppies, I
noticed that the first floppy always gets done real fast.  After that, 
every floppy always gets reformated for some reason (even though the
floppy was already formated).  This happens no matter how I rearrange
the disks (the first is always fast, the succeeding ones are always slow
because they have to be formatted).

I called Fifth Generation Systems about this problem and the technical
support person did not even think this was a problem.  She kept repeating
that I obviously had unformated disks.  I finally convinced her to write
it down as a software report, and wanted her to get back to me...that was
two to three months ago....

Has anyone had similar type of experience?  I also had some other strange
problems with this program (it rewrote the a disk before I had a chance
to put a new one in, some binary error I don't remember the details of,
etc.).  I am just rather surprised with all the problems I had since all
the magazines seem to give it such rave reviews.  With what I have seen
and the type of technical support I got, I don't know if I want to buy
their product again...

A while back I seem to have noticed someone posting an article about
problems using it on a PS/2 Model 50Z.  Is this a related problem?
Any insight would be welcomed.