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- MRBackup Professional
- Copyright © 1990-1991 TTR Development, Inc.
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- This document contains late-breaking news regarding MRBackup Professional
- changes and feature additions which occurred after the manual was printed.
- Also included are general hints and tips for enhanced use of MRBackup
- Professional.
-
- To view the remainder of this document, use the PgUp/PgDn keys. Press the
- 'Q' key to quit.
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- Enhancements
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- New features were added to MRBackup after the user manual was printed. They
- are described in this section.
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- Keep/Suppress Empty Directories Option
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- You will notice a new button on the main window which is not described in
- the user manual: Keep Empty Dirs. When this button is clicked, it toggles
- to display "Suppress Empty Dirs". When Suppress Empty Dirs is active, all
- empty directories or directories which contain no selected files will be
- omitted from the backup. This is a sometimes-desirable option which must
- be used with care.
-
- To accompany this new feature, a new ARexx command has been added:
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- KeepEmptyDirs <yes_or_no>
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- This command will allow you to set this option from within your ARexx
- scripts.
-
-
- Tips
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- To enhance the performance of MRBackup Professional when doing AmigaDOS
- compatible backups, increase the number of buffers available to your floppy
- disk drives. Naturally, this will depend upon the amount of memory
- available on your system. One buffer consumes approximately 512 bytes. As
- a suggested value, try adding 100 buffers to each drive you intend to use.
- To do this, use the AddBuffers command. Here is an example:
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- AddBuffers DF0: 100
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-
- When file compression is enabled, files are first compressed to a temporary
- image in the directory defined by the logical name "T:". If T: is
- assigned to your hard disk, compression will consume more time than when it
- is assigned to memory. To reassign T: to memory (RAM disk), do the
- following:
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- MakeDir RAM:T
- Assign T: RAM:T
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- At the end of your backup, you are requested for the name of the file where
- your catalog may be stored. Catalog files may be stored anywhere, but you
- should choose a filename that is easy to remember and associate with each
- particular backup. MRBackup suggests using the Backup Prefix with the
- suffix ".cat" appended. In the event that you misplace your backup
- catalog, all is not lost! Many of you are apparently unaware that MRBackup
- provides a Rebuild Catalog command which will reconstruct a missing catalog
- for you.
-