horowitz@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Frank Horowitz) (03/22/91)
A professor in my department has been using HD Backup (v. 1.1) to backup his (Apple supplied) internal 40 meg hard drive. The drive recently crapped out, and he ultimately reformatted it and then attempted to restore his backup. HD Backup has two restoration options: single file, and whole backup set. Since he has the whole set, he tried that option. The first few floppies restore correctly. Then, after restoring many of the files on the fourth floppy, HD Backup complains about an unreadable file. There's a "continue" button in the dialog box that purports to skip the bad file and attempt to continue with the restore. In this case, it doesn't succeed (the dialog is repeated many dozens(?) of times reporting the damaged filename as ""; then the command terminates as if the entire restore had completed successfully). The other restoration option, single file restoration, does just that: one file at a time is restored, with a separate StdFileDialog presented for each one---about twenty seconds per file. While possible in principal, it does *NOT* restore the directory structure (i.e. files are all placed in the root directory); and in any case we're talking about 40 more floppies or so, each with tens of files. Apple telephone customer service has been singularly unhelpful in solving this problem (they wanted him to buy a tape drive and use some new tape-backup software they're apparently shipping these days---for the *next* time this happens). I'd like to emphasize that this is a 100% Apple setup here; MacII, Apple internal HD, Apple supplied "backup" software. Clearly the old directory information is still on the floppies (somewhere/somehow). If only one could do a "partial" restore starting from some disk other than the first; if only, if only... :-( Has anyone ever coerced HD Backup around this kind of problem. Does any other backup program know how to read the directory information contained in HD Backup floppies? Even some way of obtaining a fully qualified pathname listing for each file would be helpful. Obvously, I intend to twist the Professor's arm to force him to buy some decent backup software once this is over. Thanks for any help you can give us, Frank Horowitz
NU163467@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Marshall Carroll) (03/26/91)
Hi. I'd like to backup my hard drive onto floppies such that the directory structure is preserved. Is HFS backup adequate? What does HFS stand for? Who makes it? Is it compatible with System 6.0.7 on a IIsi? Thanks for your help, Marsh Internet: NU163467@VM1.NODAK.EDU BITNET: NU163467@NDSUVM1