hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU (HARTKOPF JEFFREY M) (07/12/89)
Recently I posted to the net how I was having problems restoring a hard disk backup I made with Backup II. No one responded, so I thought I had better repost and clarify myself, because I *REALLY* need an answer. I probably wasn't very clear that day since I was rather shaken up. The problem is this: My hard drive is partitioned into a 32MB and 8MB drive. I had some problems, so I reformatted both with the same partitioning. Then I wanted to recover everything which I had on backups made previously with Backup II from Apple. Backup II wouldn't restore *either* drive, but I kept just my software on the first drive so I was able to fix that one by just reinstalling all my software. HOWEVER, the second drive had all of my data (word processing, data bases, *my programming*, etc.). The backup for this drive is on 3 3.5" disks and is current, since I have backed it up fairly often and as far as I know Backup II backed it up correctly (although they were incremental backups, I only did one full backup when I first got my hard disk about 3 months ago). When I tried to restore the disk using Backup II, it restored the entire first disk of the 3, but then stopped with the message "Operation complete", which it certainly wasn't! It still had 2 disks to go! So, any suggestions or solutions this time? Anyone who's familiar with Backup II? If nothing else, at least is there a way to restore the files manually? Thanks *very* much for any answers. Jeff Hartkopf Internet: hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU
dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) (07/13/89)
In article <10029@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU (HARTKOPF JEFFREY M) writes: >[...] When I tried to restore the disk using >Backup II, it restored the entire first disk of the 3, but then stopped >with the message "Operation complete", which it certainly wasn't! It still >had 2 disks to go! > >So, any suggestions or solutions this time? Anyone who's familiar with >Backup II? If nothing else, at least is there a way to restore the files >manually? Thanks *very* much for any answers. > >Jeff Hartkopf As I recall (from a similar experience several years ago, where I ended up restoring some files manually), Backup II stores each file in a sequential clump of blocks, so you can read the blocks into memory manually and BSAVE the files manually (and fix up their filetypes/auxtypes). I don't remember whether the clumps were *really* sequential, or whether it just happened that way because nonfragmented ProDOS files are already that way. --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 AppleLink--Personal Edition: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.