wdw@aucs.UUCP (Bill Wilder) (02/22/88)
I've recently upgraded my copy of Fastback from 5.14 to Fastback Plus
1.0. The new program has many enhancements and a lot of work has been
put into the user interface. I have however, noticed the following
problems:
Fastback Plus when backing up to floppy disks will begin
overwriting a disk already mounted in the machine. The original
fastback required you to physically reload the disk. While the new
behaviour is documented, I prefer the former approach.
When I attempted to reload a complete hard disk from a backup, all
files were placed in the root directory and the original directory
structure was lost. I eventually corrected the options and got my
disk reloaded properly but the default options for reload did not
seem to be correct.
When doing another restore Fastback Plus on two occassions
reported errors 48, 43, 46 and 47. The gist of these errors is
that the floppies containing the backup are partially unreadable
or were inserted in the drive in the wrong sequence. However, I
was restoring FROM a hard disk at the time and I am confident the
hard disk is working properly.
Fastback Plus seems to be unable to restore files marked read
only. I feel there should be an option available to enable this.
Finally, any attempts to reach Fifth Generation Systems support
line resulted in a busy signal. I don't mind waiting on hold a
reasonable length of time but I do find it very frustrating to
have to constantly re-dial with no ultimate success.
It's my hope that these problems are typical of the glitches that
appear in version 1.0 of anything and that they'll eventually be
corrected. Fastback Plus certainly has lots of potential to be an
excellent product.
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