keashly@winston.UUCP (Lance Keashly) (10/29/86)
Thanks to all the people who replied to my request for help. Most of
the replies based the fix on the fact that the lisa thought it had a valid
Mac formatted disk. Our Lisa did not think it was a Mac formatted disk.
The replies that stated I should use Mactools 5.* seemed the best chance,
unfortunatly in one of the many tries when using the hard disk install.
I clicked the OK button on the install's "Not a Mac disk, intialize?".
Needless to say the Lisa works just fine now but all the data was lost.
So as we slowly recover the data (off hardcopy) we now have a strong
incentive for backup.
Anyone have suggestions for a good backup scheme. HFS backup, that we use
on a Mac with a hard disk doesn't work on the non HFS Lisa.
Thanks Again.
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Lance Keashly
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(604) 291-7111guido@mcvax.uucp (Guido van Rossum) (11/01/86)
>Anyone have suggestions for a good backup scheme. HFS backup, that we use >on a Mac with a hard disk doesn't work on the non HFS Lisa. Well, I thought the Lisa (actually, Mac/XL) was dead, but for all those people who got one really cheap: long ago I wrote a backup utility for it. This was the first backup/restore utility to hit the net, and when HFS appeared I received many requests for an upgrade to HFS. I never got that far (it took a long time before I could lay my hands on the HFS version of the File Manager documentation), and I decided to spend my time on something else when I read all the enthousiastic reports on HFS backup. It may be possible to locate a copy of my backup program in old Usenet or BBS archives; if you can't find it, I can mail you a new copy. -- Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <guido@mcvax.uucp>