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Doing restores with the Mac client

1994-06-21 21:25:42
Subject: Doing restores with the Mac client
From: Melinda Varian <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 21:25:42 EDT
One of my colleagues just had the experience of a complete wipeout of
his Mac disk.  After a bit of a struggle, he now has all of his files
restored, but it didn't go altogether smoothly.  We have opened one
incident concerning a "File not found" message that stopped the restore
and forced him to restore the rest of the files folder by folder.  That
was tedious, but it worked.  Our biggest remaining concern is that the
privileges were not restored correctly.  There are also some human
factors concerns.  Here's what he had to say:

Privileges

I had one folder shared on my application volume.  Subfolders had
various access privs (not all inherited from the parent).  This
volume is *not* my boot volume;  my boot volume had already been
restored and booted from.  (I.e.  my 'Users & Groups' file had
already been restored and seemed ok, and sharing was on.)

After doing a complete volume restore on the application volume
(disk started empty), the folder that should be shared was not.
Ditto after a restart.  I shared it (manually);  the privs had
gone back to defaults.  Then I checked the subfolders;  privs on
those too had gone back to defaults.

User Interface

* When restoring by folder, after restore is 'done', you return
me to the adsm main window.  Instead, please return me to the
folder selection window (where I hit the 'restore' button), with
the scroll location & hilight remembered.  This folder selection
window should be resizable, too;  ditto for the two subpanes.

* Should be a preference for scheduler app that says to "open
hidden" (i.e.  iconified).

* Am I the only one who finds the 'Zzzz' cursor annoying?....
Seems like any other Mac program that is running, but not
presently in the middle of an operation shows an arrow cursor.
And when you're in an operation and you're trying to indicate
that something's going on, they typically use the watch cursors,
or spinning top...
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