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- From: lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick)
- Subject: Re: DOS 3.30 backup -> DOS 5.0 Restore?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.224320.14816@dmp.csiro.au>
- Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
- References: <Bxx6wt.G69@brunel.ac.uk> <1992Nov21.061102.26865@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <1992Nov22.110137.12867@newstand.syr.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:43:20 GMT
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- amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) writes:
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- >In monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> cosham@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Cosham) writes:
- >>In <Bxx6wt.G69@b> Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner) writes:
- >>>I'm trying to restore a DOS 3.30 backup onto a PC running DOS 5.0.
- >>
- >>As far as I am aware, the 3.30 backups can be restored using DOS 5.
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- > DOS Backup is the worst single piece of software ever producted by IBM/MS.
- >The only thing that surprises me is that IBM/MS does NOT sell something to
- >justify such a bad move.
- >I have used DOS Backup successfully over a wide range of Dos versions and
- >wide range of hardware without difficulty. (Indicating that for some people
- >it will work, AND that I _do_ know how to use it.) I also have had a wide
- >range _non_functional (it don't work) problems with DOS Backup over a wide
- >range of Dos versions and hardware. The latest example is a classic, problem.
- >My new (ish) employer had paid a 3rd party service company to come in for 10
- >years on a monthly basis, now they need one of these restored, but the system
- >which made the backup refuses to acknowledge any dos backup disk. Classic.
-
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- DOS backup is definitely garbage. After demonstating DOS backup
- and a good backup program like Fastback, only the cheapest of
- the cheap continue to use DOS backup instead of investing
- in a decent program.
- --
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