Warnings about backups

[daye@CSOS.ORST.EDU (Critical Mass)]

This is a warning to those who backup their hard drives.  Ever had to restore
from one of those backups?  If you have, you expect the backup to restore
properly.  Seems reasonable, right?  Wrong - If you used Salvation Bakkup to
back up your HD, things will NOT come out as they went in.  I recently backed
up my boot partition, then ran a diagnostic on it (Salvation-Deliverance), 
which tried unsuccessfully to fix a couple of minor problems.  In effect, it
toasted my volume bitmap.  Okay, I thought, I'll just reformat and restore.
Well, the Finder wouldn't recognize the partition, ADU barfed on it, even
8-bit utils wouldn't touch it.  Fine, I'll just back up the rest of the drive
and low level format from the RAMFast.  Easy.  Until I tried to restore.  I
kept getting disk errors, when I specified for Bakkup to verify each disk after
writing to it.  So I figure out which files have problems and try to work
around them.  Now I get random GS/OS parameter errors, something in the program
is NOT working right.  The rest of this not-yet-finished long story short, I'm
going to be spending a lot of time finding/downloading things that I shouldn't
have to be spending, and I haven't even checked the other backups I did.

Moral: Stay AWAY from the Salvation utilities.  The only one I will still use
is Renaissance, which I have used many times with no problem.  But DO NOT trust
your data to Deliverance or Bakkup, because you can get burned.  

A public service announcement of the Ad Council, and your local station. Now 
back to your regularly scheduled programming.

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