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Skriven 2007-03-24 12:20:20 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
    Kommentar till text 618 av Peter Knapper (3:772/1.10)
Ärende: making backups
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 PK> When I did a backup, I would point my Rexx script at a drive or
 PK> directory  and said GO... and it would back up everything from that
 PK> start point. I would then do a tape read test to create an index
 PK> file and validate every file on the tape and this verified that the
 PK> tape was readable and that the backup Tape  contained everything on
 PK> the HD. 

 ml> do you still have this script? would it be possible to 
 ml> get a copy to me for use/examination??

 PK> I really had to hunt to find it, I though I may have tossed it, but
 PK> no... everything is still there, dated 1997 from its last
 PK> run....;-)   

great!!

 PK> I have created a 330KB Zip file containing Config.Sys lines, all
 PK> executables (1996 versions), drivers, help files and my Rexx file
 PK> is TBACK.CMD. I could attach the ZIP to an email address, send a
 PK> netmail and it will be on its way. The Rexx script is pretty basic
 PK> but it worked fine for me.......;-) 

oh wow, that's quite a bit... i appreciate the effort and the work... you can
send it to my wkitty42 -at- gmail -dot- com address...

 PK> backup so moved to using another HD across the LAN and the OS2
 PK> Replication facilty as backup. Faster, easier to selectively
 PK> restore files, etc.

 ml> i'd love to be able to do that... however, this 
 ml> particular box has the maximum storage on the entire lan...

 PK> OS/2 Replication is absolutely wonderful, its a little known
 PK> feature of OS/2 and it works PERFECT for me. There is only one
 PK> possible gotcha but with a  little thought thats easy to allow work
 PK> around...

i believe i've read your praises about it several times over the years...

 PK> The other issue is that Replication only works on ONE driver letter
 PK> per system, however thats easily worked around by using TVFS, it
 PK> can work wonders......;-) 

something to do with TVFS is one of the reasons why i adjusted by boot
networking stuff to load differently than the default method... i have a
netinit.cmd file that logs in and maps the drives before the desktop comes
up... it was fired from config.sys but i then moved it to tcpstart.cmd because
the system was stopping and waiting for a keypress at the end of config.sys...
that move to tcpstart didn't help, though, as it still waits for that
keypress... i've gotta find somewhere else to load it to get around that
keypress as it causes the box to sit and wait forever until i get back if i'm
gone when it reipls...

i'm wondering if i can put it in startup.cmd and get the same results without
the keypress?

)\/(ark

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