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| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
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| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
2163.0. "WARNING: Matt Dillon's BACKUP utility" by MANTIS::LONG () Thu Jan 26 1989 12:17
I just found a bug with the PD BACKUP utility for hard disks that was posted
on USENET a while back by Matt Dillon. If you have a DRAWER icon called FOO
and inside that FOO sub-directory you have a PROJECT icon called FOO.INFO that
is associated with an executable called FOO, the executable will not be
restored. I don't know yet if the executable was actually saved and not
restored or whether it was not saved in the first place.
I found this out the hard way late last night when I decided to roll
everything off the harddisk, reformat for FFS, and roll it back on. I lost
about 10 files from this bug. If I had placed the executables and icons in
drawers called ASSORTED-TOOLS or something else that didn't match my
executable names, there was no problem. Even with this bug, it's still a very
good backup utility if you know what to steer away from.
Dick
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