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Date:	Fri, 17 Dec 2004 05:12:10 PST8
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "jr_fox@pacbell.net" > jr_fox@pacbell.net > ,
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: UniMaint's Portable Backup is broken for eCS

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J. R.,
Jim Read can be found as follows:

jread@gte.net

HCM

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:14:55 PST8, jr_fox@pacbell.net wrote:

>If you are responding to someone asking for help who
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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 1.2), because he said the results would be very bad. Still,
>I would have liked to try it as a test. Worst case scenario: wipe out the
>partition if it didn't work, and do the install over. Well, it looks like
>I won't even get the chance to try this. In attempting to first make a
>Portable Backup of one of the two eCS 1.1 boot partitions I have, UniMaint
>(the last publicly released version, not whatever custom build Peter
>managed to get ahold of) repeatedly hung at
>
> 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. One time though, I let it sit that way for 90 minutes while
>I ran some errands. 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.
>
>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.
>
>
>Jordan
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