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Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:14:55 PST8
From:	< "jr_fox@pacbell.net" > jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: UniMaint's Portable Backup is broken for eCS

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Harry warned me not to try to use UniMaint's Portable Backup with eCS (for=

a Restore attempt, I mean, in order to shortcut the partition-building,
when I install 1=2E2), because he said the results would be very bad=2E S=
till,
I would have liked to try it as a test=2E Worst case scenario: wipe out t=
he
partition if it didn't work, and do the install over=2E Well, it looks li=
ke
I won't even get the chance to try this=2E In attempting to first make a
Portable Backup of one of the two eCS 1=2E1 boot partitions I have, UniMai=
nt
(the last publicly released version, not whatever custom build Peter
managed to get ahold of) repeatedly hung at=20

saving Detail Object Data

Programs\Utilities\eCenter

I thought that was the end of it, and so had no choice each time but to
bail & Reboot=2E One time though, I let it sit that way for 90 minutes wh=
ile
I ran some errands=2E When I came back, I found a UniMaint Error Dump Log=
on
the screen (which, it turns out, was written to disk), but with the system=

otherwise hung=2E

I'm guessing this may have something to do with eCenter not existing back
when the last UniMaint code was wrung out ?

Anyone know where Jim Read &/or Larry Martin hang out these days ? Steven=
,
if by any chance you are curious to see that dump file, I think it is not
very large, and I could email it to you=2E

Jordan

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