Hello word.
I ant to restore a PCBACKUP.001 file dated 1990.
Please did you succeed to restore your file?
If yes, please tell me how you operated?
I THANK you.
regards.I'd use the "original software" that created it and use that software to restore it. If you can import the file and the backup utility to a virtual environment, you can restore it to a virtual space on your computer, and then copy it out of this virtual space if needed etc. Usually there are more than 1 disk that make these backups such as a disk with PCBackup.002, and then .003, etc in a spanned backup where files greater than 720k or 1.44mb are spanned across multiple disks. You will need all the disks of the spanned backup to probably get your data from 1990.

I haven't had to recover anything this OLD before from a backup file, usually data I am dealing with of this period are on disks that have aged and have corruption in which I use a utility like GETDATABACK to sweep what can be read off the disk and copy it to healthy hard drive to try to get whatever is not trashed off the disk that has aged and lost its magnetic signature over time etc.In the past I backed up a drive using PC tools suite and when it came to restore it the version of PC tools had to be the same release.

I mention this because if you use a DIFFERENT release then PC tools can't read the backup archive.



(I think it was PC tools that I used for this process - it was a very long time ago now)According to the year i wrote the floppy, i think i used PCbackup from PCTools 5 (1988).
I tried PCtolls/PCbackup 6.0, it does PCBACKUP.001 file but do not recognize my PBCALUP.001 file.
So i want to test the earlier PCtools 5.

Please, if you have this software, can you send to me a copy in rar or zip format??
There is non need of booting floppy.
I thank you.
Regards.

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