Re: Warning: bad experience with KBackup and 100M zip disks

2000-12-27 Thread Mark Phillips
> > So, I am still totally mystified about why it went so horribly wrong. > > It would seem the KBackup software is at least partly to blame, maybe > > entirely to blame? It uses gzip in conjunction with afio, which I > > thought were fairly reliable. Hardware could possibly be to blame, > > but

Re: Warning: bad experience with KBackup and 100M zip disks

2000-12-26 Thread kmself
What in God's name are you doin with your headers? Reply-to is all fscked up. on Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 10:57:29AM +1030, Mark Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So, I am still totally mystified about why it went so horribly wrong. > It would seem the KBackup software is at least partly to bla

Warning: bad experience with KBackup and 100M zip disks

2000-12-26 Thread Mark Phillips
Yesterday was a bad day. I do a bit of maintenance work for a friend's laptop. Yesterday morning he contacted me about problems he was having booting it. As it turned out he had accidentally used the rescue disk to destroy his system. "Initialize ext2 partition?" Why of course! Fortunately a