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#HDBackup problems

    25-Nov-93 12:11:17
Sb: #HDBackup problems
Fm: Clay Spence 72713,2540
To: All
I'm having a little trouble with the HDBackup utility in the Tools drawer. I finally decided to back up the Work: partition on my hard disk. I de-selected the files and directories I did not want to back up, and HDBackup told me I would need 6.1 floppies to do it. I selected "Compression" and "Set Archive Bits" from the options menu. The estimated number of floppies changed to ??? as the manual claimed it would. When I did the back up it still needed 7 floppies, in spite of the compression, and no archive bits were set. I did it over without compression, and it was no faster, comfirming my suspicion that there was no compression the first time. What did I do wrong? Or is HDBackup not entirely functional? Clay Spence