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From: pvf@bridge2.3Com.Com (Paul V. Fries)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keywords: Turtle Restore
Message-ID: <570@bridge2.3Com.Com>
Date: 14 Apr 89 20:33:09 GMT
References: <6840@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: pvf@diablo.3Com.com (Paul Fries)
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In article <6840@saturn.ucsc.edu> humtech@ucschu.ucsc.edu (Mark Frost) writes:
>
.I have a bit of a problem! I just backed up my entire hard disk using the
.Turtle backup utility in order to reformat my hard disk. (I wanted to
.try formatting my Seagate ST296N at 1:1 interleave). Well now that I've
.discovered that I can't format 1:1 (I have ROM8's), I reformatted to 2:1
.interleave. Now I need to restore my hard disk from the floppies. I can't
.figure out how to do this!!! Other than manually copying all of the files 
.off of the floppies I can find no way to do this using Turtle (or any of
.the support programs). The program "Terrapin" allows me to restore a file
.which is not helpful. I need to restore the entire hard disk from floppies.
.Turtle (3.0 I believe is what I have) has only a "backup" option from what I
.can tell - no "restore" option!
.
.Help! Help! I'm practically in a panic. Please someone help me....


No need to panic.  Copy the floppies.

I, for one, count this as a small blessing.  The files can always be
copied manually "if all else fails".

I wrote myself a restore program, however, to fix up the date and time
information when restoring the turtle floppies.
It would have been nice if something had been included in the turtle
distribution, but I would rather have turtle without restore than no
turtle at all.