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I tried to backup my brand new hard disk today -- about 15M of stuff
on it, and I was getting a little nervous.  I borrowed a copy of
HDBackup from a friend with the idea that if it worked I'd buy it.

I was not impressed.  It tried to initialize the first disk, and failed.
No big deal, except that it then froze the cursor.  I could imagine
that happening on disk 12 of a 14 disk backup.  So I bagged that.

I then dug up about 4 different PD backup programs.  Only one of the
four, MacDump, could I get to work at all.  And it was painfully un-mac-like,
and seemed to have no prevision for full restore...  And it didn't init
diskettes at all!

-- Also --

In the process of backing up the crucial 5M by hand, I managed to get into
a situation where the finder said for several files "The file <bleah> could
not be written and was skipped" and then said "The directory of <bleah, the
floppy> is full."  Directory full??  On an HFS Disk?  None of the folders
had more than 20 files in them.  And I thought the whole point of HFS was
that each folder had its own directory!  The finder exhibited the same
behavior with two different floppies, so it wasn't the floppies' fault...

-- Questions --

What backup schemes have people had good luck with?  Should I just
go with HDBackup and format all my disks before I start the backup?
Is there good PD software available?

What's up with HFS directories?

					Thanks In Advance for any answers...

						Bart Massey
						..tektronix!reed!bart

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