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Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2003 20:03:37 PDT
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net" > jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net > ,
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: BackAgainII v 3.0 aborts

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Jack,

Did you ever get RSJ installed? Did you install Daniela's "backdoor" for RSJ?
HCM

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 19:32:40 PDT, jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net wrote:

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>In , on 04/15/2003
> at 04:47 PM, "Steven Levine" said:
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>>In <200304151500.3934043.6@scoug.com>, on 04/15/03
>> at 03:00 PM, jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net said:
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>>>11-APR-03 00:07:24 [id=8000] Backup for set 'BABKUP1' started. 11-APR-03
>>>00:07:32 [id=0200] [rc1=0002 rc2=0000] [OS/2 API error code = 3 (x0003)]
>>>An unexpected device error has occurred. Please collect all relevant
>>>information and contact technical support for further assistance.
>>>11-APR-03 00:08:02 [id=8003] Total active time for operation : 0:00.
>>>11-APR-03 00:08:02 [id=8004] Total idle time for operation : 0:38.
>>>11-APR-03 00:08:02 [id=8005] Total elapsed time for operation : 0:38.
>>>11-APR-03 00:08:02 [id=8007] Processed 0.0 MB in 0 files. 11-APR-03
>>>00:08:02 [id=8400] Backup aborted.
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>>>BABKUP1 set looks like this:
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>>A couple of things. Make sure you have applied all the patches to v3.0,
>>just to be safe.
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>>Since you are backing up to hard disk, you need to limit each container
>>(i.e. backup.dat) to 2GB. I suspect you are exceeding this. Use the
>>estimate options to see if this is the case. If so, just create multiple
>>backup set and keep each the container below 2GB.
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>>>I emailed this info to tech support but have not heard anything from
>>>them. Since they usually reply promptly, I guess they are overloaded or
>>>stumped.
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>>They might be a bit busy with support for the new version. v3.0 has been
>>out of support for a while, but they probably will reply eventually.
>
>>Steven
>
>Steven,
>
>Hooray and thanks a million! BAII worked. After 13 years of never
>backing up, I did a zip backup last October and will make a full backup
>now so I can run DFsee. Lousing up the hard drive as I did and your
>strictures about backing up took hold.
>
>Since there were only 1.2 megs of files in all the drives, upgrading to v.
>3.00a did the trick.
>
>I am curious about these three entried in the backup set.
>
>[ExcPatt_1]
> FileSpec = *\swapper.dat
> Recursive = On
> HideFromUser = On
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>[ExcPatt_2]
> FileSpec = *\ea data. sf
> Recursive = On
> HideFromUser = On
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>[ExcPatt_3]
> FileSpec = *\wp data. sf
> Recursive = On
> HideFromUser = On
>
>It looks like the ea's and whatever is in wp data. sf was not copied.
>Does Warp 4 create them when the files are restored?
>
>I plan to check the restore option by backing up one partition and
>restoring it with a write over everything instruction and then verify that
>the number of bytes before backup and after restore are the same. Is that
>an adequate test? Is it enough to check the byte totals before and after
>on ZTreeBold or is there a better way to make that check?
>
>Thanks again.
>
>Jack
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