kpicott@sapporoalias.UUCP (Kevin Picott) (07/11/90)
I have been using a slightly older version of MRBackup (2.4 I believe) and it seems to get very confused about how much space is left on disk. I am restoring about 15M to a 100M partition and about 10M through the MRBackup "fuel gauge" reads 90% full!!! If I continue restoring then parts of the disk are written over, trashing a lot of my files. Has anyone else had this problem, and/or does the latest version fix it? -- Socrates --
mrr@mrsoft.Newport.RI.US (Mark Rinfret) (07/14/90)
>In article <1990Jul11.120650.25696@alias.uucp> kpicott@sapporoalias.UUCP (Kevin Picott) writes: >I have been using a slightly older version of MRBackup (2.4 I believe) and it seems >to get very confused about how much space is left on disk. I am restoring about >15M to a 100M partition and about 10M through the MRBackup "fuel gauge" reads 90% >full!!! If I continue restoring then parts of the disk are written over, trashing >a lot of my files. Has anyone else had this problem, and/or does the latest version >fix it? > >-- Socrates -- I answered this via e-mail, then decided a net-answer was probabably appropriate. Version 2.4 is ancient history and did have a problem with a few cases of 16-bit vs. 32-bit integer usage (as well as other problems). The most recent version is 4.0b which appears to be quite stable. This version was released from comp.binaries.amiga some time ago. Since MRBackup has always generated AmigaDOS-format disks, you can use the AmigaDOS COPY command (e.g. COPY CLONE ALL DF0: DH0:) to restore the diskettes individually). The compressed files (".Z" suffix) can be decompressed with the Un*x compress program which has been ported to the Amiga several times over. Find one that supports wildcards and you can decompress batches of compressed files with compress -d *.Z I hope this is helpful. Mark -- ################################################################# # Mark R. Rinfret, MRSoft Home: 401-846-7639 # # mrr@mrsoft, galaxia!mrsoft!mrr Work: 401-849-9930 x301 # #################################################################