toms@oakhill.UUCP (Thomas Spohrer) (12/15/86)
Last night I did a full backup using the PC-DOS 2.10 backup
program. On spot checking the backups, I found that many of the
disks have only 16 files listed in thier directories eventhough
backup listed that over 25 files were put on these disks. The space
allocated to the files listed in the directories does not account
for all the space on the disk. I assume that DOS must have actually
written all the files to the disk but it did not update the directory
correctly for some reason.
I got no errors on the backup or a restore. On restore only
the files listed in the directory were recoverable (obviously).
The disks were freshly formated with DOS FORMAT and no options.
Using NORTON's utilities I find that the root directory size of
the disks in question is 112 entries so that should not be a problem.
Question: what did I screw up, OR, what did DOS screw up?????
What other problems are known about the DOS
Backup/Restore utilities.
(Equipment: IBM PC, PC-DOS 2.10, 20M hard disk,
360k floppy, Orchid Turbo EGA.)
Any comments or help will be appreciated. Thank You.
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Motorola Semiconductors Tom Spohrer
Austin, Texas {seismo,gatech,ihnp4}!ut-sally!oakhill!toms