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amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) writes:

>In monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> cosham@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Cosham) writes:
>>In <Bxx6wt.G69@b> Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner) writes:
>>>I'm trying to restore a DOS 3.30 backup onto a PC running DOS 5.0.
>>
>>As far as I am aware, the 3.30 backups can be restored using DOS 5.


>   DOS Backup is the worst single piece of software ever producted by IBM/MS.
>The only thing that surprises me is that IBM/MS does NOT sell something to
>justify such a bad move.
>I have used DOS Backup successfully over a wide range of Dos versions and 
>wide range of hardware without difficulty.  (Indicating that for some people
>it will work, AND that I _do_ know how to use it.)  I also have had a wide
>range _non_functional (it don't work) problems with DOS Backup over a wide
>range of Dos versions and hardware.  The latest example is a classic, problem.
>My new (ish) employer had paid a 3rd party service company to come in for 10
>years on a monthly basis, now they need one of these restored, but the system
>which made the backup refuses to acknowledge any dos backup disk.  Classic.


DOS backup is definitely garbage.  After demonstating DOS backup
and a good backup program like Fastback, only the cheapest of
the cheap continue to use DOS backup instead of investing
in a decent program.
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