Re: Found a Vulcan HD!

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Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:

>HFS? I like it and use it but a number of people have had problems and lost
>data. So far I've been lucky but I've always been strong on making backups.
>With prodos there are a lot of disk management and repair utilities as
>opposed to nothing for HFS. Another item to consider is that you can only
>boot GSOS programs off a HFS partition and an occasional one of those won't
>recognize the HFS partitions. I prefer to use 5 prodos and one HFS partition.

I like to use it too.  I use it almost exclusively and have not lost data due
to the file system.  Actually, it is lucky HFS makes me diligent about
backing up.

Several weeks ago, one of my drives physically failed.  Made a horrible
metal to metal grinding noise, then could be accessed no more.  On
the drive was a ProDOS partition and an HFS one.  I had backups of
both, but the HFS one was a file by file backup (because of the
questions about HFS integrity and all).  The ProDOS one, I just let
Archiver do a volume backup, thinking that the file system has no
problems.

After the crash, I discovered that Archiver has a nasty bug that corrupts
volume copy.  That ProDOS partition and the data from it are lost
forever.  The HFS data survives.

No file management utility in the world could help me recover data
from a physical drive failure like that.  Sometimes I think now that we
are overly complacent about ProDOS.  We should not be.  We should
treat backing up ProDOS just as urgently as backing up HFS.