ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) (10/20/88)
I'm having real problems with this - I've even reported some of the
following to Apple using Outside Bug Reporter, but I didn't get any
reply. I've listed the bugs below, but could I please BEG someone to
send me Version 2.0.1 or whatever it was recently discussed on the
net. (I hope I am not breaking any rules here - if so, perhaps someone
at Apple themselves might like to send me a copy - Apple UK refuse to
even acknowledge it exists. Goodness knows when they will get round to
releasing it)>
(1) After an unrecoverable write error on the tape, the message
"Backup Successful" is given. This is stupid, but I can live with it.
(2) A backup I did needed 3 tapes, and I wrote the final catalogue on the
first tape as prompted. On restoring, I got the message that the
restore was complete after the 2nd tape had been processed. I guess
the software used the catalogue off the 2nd tape to decide
this. (I did manage to get all my files back by separately restoring
what was on the third tape).
(3) I had a file (on the desktop) with the name " Timekeeper" - note the
leading space. This was not presented in the list of files on the disk
presumably somehow because of this leading space. As a result it did not
get backed up, and was lost. This is really worrying cause I don't know
if any other files got lost - I will only find out when I need them.
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Dr Ralph Martin
Department of Computing Mathematics
University of Wales College of Cardiff
PO Box 916
Cardiff
CF2 4YN
United Kingdom