Re: Archiver problem

[90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)]

The following revelation escaped Gerald W. Lester's lips:
> 
> 4) Discovered that the Archiver had *NOT* archived *some* of the
> applications that were on the desktop, even though it verified the disk
> and gave **NO** errors on either the archive or restore operations.

    Are you sure they haven't been put away (i.e., still on the drive, but
not on the desktop)?  I don't think Archiver backs up your Finder.Root
files unless you tell it to in Preferences.

> 5) Used many words that I should not have used.

    Heh heh.  :)  Tip... Since application files never (or rarely) change,
keep a separate backup on floppy (in addition to your originals, of
course).  That will save you a lot of disks swapping when you back up other
files on your drive.  I have about 19 megabytes of applications, plus
another 30 or so in games.  That's a lot of files I *don't* have to worry
about during each backup.

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