Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!bmacintyre
From: bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Dont read this if you want to go to Disk Hell
Message-ID: <19340@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 89 16:41:06 GMT
References: <1989Dec14.063253.29855@csmil.umich.edu> <8912141655.AA06282@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Organization: University of Waterloo
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bevis@EE.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Jeff Bevis) writes:
>chymes@csmil.umich.edu (Charles Hymes) writes:
>>DON'T use MRBackup of fish disk 270!!
>Why not?

Because ...
 
>> Heh Heh Heh. MRBackup not only crashed every time I tried to use it, 5 times, 
>>IT GOD DAMM TRASHED MY FU*&*%$ HARD DISK!!!!!
>
>I can understand your excitement at the munging of your hard drive, but I
>use MRBackup and have not had any trouble yet -- nothing like this.  I
>suspect you are just not fully aware of the operation of MRBackup

Well, I recently switched from Matt's Backup program to MrBackup for the
simple reason that I _love_ the technique used by MRBackup, that of 
creating a similar directory tree and compressing the files.  Makes for
much quicker restores of one of two files.

But, the program makes me nervous (ask my officemate:  I wouldn't let
him flip screens and use VLT while it was backing up! ) ... why?  
For the reasons expressed above:  it crashed a number of times.  They
were fairly consistent, too.  

- flipping screens with DMouse would eventually hang my machine when the
  MRBackup screen came up.  This has NEVER happened with DMouse before.

- Using the utilities sometimes caused it to crash.

I'm using the newest version that came across the net.

All in all, I like the program.  But, it seems to be a little flakey
in the "multitasking nicely" area!

Blair
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