1. How do I de-select a file in backup?

Use the TAB keys to go to the selected files box, move the cursor (using the
arrow keys) to the item you wish to de-select and then press 'd' or 'D' and
after confirmation, the file will be de-selected.


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2. How do I de-select a file in restore?

The same as above.


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3. How do I move between YES and NO in message boxes?

You can press 'y', 'Y', 'n', 'N' to select yes or no directly. Alternatively, 
use TAB or spacebar to move the highlight between YES and NO. Press ENTER when
the highlight is on what you wish.


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4. I am mid-way through backing up in the directory /proc and I get funny 
   messages such as '-7% done' and the program seems to hang?

The /proc directory does not contain files. It contains run-time system 
information, such as the environment of running processes, an image of
system memory etc.. Therefore, you should not need to backup the /proc 
directory. If you do, you will get spurious results such as the above.


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5. Why not automatically exclude the /proc directory from backups?

Not all people enable the /proc directory and then use proc as the name
of a directory to store their files (though this bad practice). By 
automatically ignoring /proc directories, these people would be unable to
backup their files. Further, some people change the name of their /proc
directory to something else so disabling /proc backups would not help them. For
the time being, the best practice is to avoid backing up you /proc or its
equivalent. In future releases, I will try to attempt to get backup to
automatically detect a run-time system file and not back it up.


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6. Where do I get ncurses 1.9.2d?

It is available from ftp.netcom.com in /pub/zm/zmbenhal. You will need
ncurses 1.9.2 if you wish to use colour support. 


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7.  After doing a backup or mkinfo, taper exists saying 
    "Unable to create info file"

Check that the info file directory (the default is /$HOME/.taper_info) exists.
If it doesn't, taper doesn't create it but exists with the above error. Note
that if after a backup, taper can't create the info file, the backup is
still intact. You just have to create the directory and then run mkinfo,
not do the whole backup again.


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8.  After doing a restore, the permissions on the files are correct, but 
    all the files are owned by the user running restore (ie. ownership of
    files and directories is not correctly set).

This will happen if a user other than root runs the restore program. Under
UN*X, only the root can change the ownership of files. Therefore, if wish
to restore the correct ownerships, run restore as root. 


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9.  When selecting files to restore, taper keeps on saying "File already
    selected" but the file is not in the select window.

Check to make sure that the file has not already been selected via its 
directory being selected. For example, is /usr/bin/ is selected, trying
to select /usr/bin/ls will result in the message since, by selecting the
whole directory /usr/bin, you automatically select /usr/bin/ls.


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10.  I keep on getting the error message "Device or resource busy while 
     trying to open backup device".

Make sure that another user is not using the tape drive.

Make sure that no processes that use the tape drive are running in the
background.

If you are using a floppy controller, make sure that there are no floppy
drives mounted.
