Options window

Since Restore is mainly controlled by all the choices you made in Backup, it has very few options of its own. Those that it does have are documented below:

The main options window

  1. Entire backup
    This option restores the whole backup to a specified place. It first asks for you to enter disc 1 and then the rest of the discs in sequence.

  2. Selected items
    This allows you to choose exactly what you restore and where it goes. Firstly, it needs the last disc in the set, and then you are prompted to enter any discs that are necessary. More information on these two methods is given below.

  3. Source drive
    This is similar to the destination drive in Backup - see that section for more information. The entry here should be the same as when the file was backed up, although for floppies you can change the drive.

  4. Show status display
    This is greyed out because this option is not available in the demo version; the status display is always shown.

  5. Cancel
    This closes the window and resets the options to what they were before.

  6. OK
    This stores the options and goes onto the next phase, which depends on whether Entire backup or Selected items was chosen.

Methods of restoring

There are two methods of restoring files which depend on what you want to restore.

Entire backup

This method is fairly simple because it simply requests the discs in sequence and restores what is held on them to a single directory. It only uses the file Backup which is stored on each disc. However the downside is that if a disc is corrupt or missing, then Restore will not be able to Restore the files on any of the discs after this one.

Selected items

This method involves opening a Filer - style window and allows you to move up and down directories and drag files and directories out to wherever you like. This works by reading the information stored in the Keyfile which is stored on the last disc in the set. It requests discs only when they are needed to extract files from them. This means if any disc bar the last is missing or corrupt you can still restore a large percentage of the original data. One minor point which makes this less useful to restore the whole backup is that it is slightly slower than the Entire backup method. Also if the keyfile is corrupt, you cannot restore anything without Entire backup.

Go to the title page, the demo index, the restore index, the starting up, the restore entire backup section, or the other matters section.