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- From: drew@cgofs.dec.com (Steve Drew)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
- Subject: SDBackup Part 1 of 2 (Docs)
- Message-ID: <11707@decwrl.DEC.COM>
- Date: 28 Sep 87 17:20:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@decwrl.DEC.COM
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- I'm sending this here for speed, also it's not too big. I'll be sending
- Shell 2.07M to .sources,binaries later this week and if I get a chance
- to tidy up the code I'll send the source for SDBackup there too.
- But for now heres the Doc file, and UUE file.
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- I wrote this backup program about a month ago when I got my Supra 20 meg
- drive. It is CLI oriented, and is invoked in one command line. At the present
- it does not support wild cards, but you can select a single directory
- or single file. I have quite a few people who have backed up and restored
- their entire drives using SDBackup with no problems.
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- It seems that the availability of PD backup programs is getting much better
- MRBackup seems very good also, Mark obviously put alot of time into his
- backup program and I don't mean to compete with anyone. I just have'nt seen
- a PD backup program arround yet that uses the 1.2 archive bits. And it sure
- is nice not to have to remember the last time you did a backup.
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- Some Features: (SDBackup Version 1.1).
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- - Is generic to any drives, eg. you can backup floppies to floppies.
- You can even backup (compress) 3 1/2 to 5 1/4 disks.
- - Uses LZ Compression.
- - It does support 1.2 Archive bits and any file when backup up gets it's
- archive bit set, thus you can do incrementals via date/time or by
- using the archive bit. (-s LAST)
- Shell 2.07M (sending out later this week) will show you the Archive
- bits under a dir command, in the protection field.
- - Has a built in maintenance mode for checking/marking/clearing archive
- bits on files. Any big files or directories you don't wont backed up
- you can then just set the archive bit on and use the -s LAST mode.
- - Error recovery is easy since all the files are marked as you go,
- restarting the backup half way through will continue at the file you
- left off at.
- - Having preformated your disks with labels XXXX_nn: (eg. Backup_1:)
- you can stick a disk in df0: and df1: and walk away.
- - Or you can have SDBackup format them for you on the fly.
- - Can have SDBackup just show you the files that would be backed up
- without doing anything by using the -V switch.
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