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Reliable backup

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From: John Chapple
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:00
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There was a discussion here about backup recently.

IIRC some people thought Seagate backup was reliable/useful, others
preferred ghost. On that score, another disadvantage of a conventional
backup is that if there are large numbers of corrupted files around,
these will still be left to be manually removed (if you can identify
them all) after the restore?

Seagate backup, now provided with W98 (SE), seems to provide a useful
way to back up a small amount of data to _floppies_, but is it reliable,
used this way?
Whilst running this only a few times I got several (transitory) blue
screens saying drive A was not accessible data may be lost. No data
seemed to be lost doing a verify, but on another occasion a restore
simply stopped working.
-- 
John Chapple
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From: John Chapple <jc@ch-w.demon.co.uk>
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Date: 2000/05/11
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