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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: Disaster Recovery - Planning Ahead w/K95
Date: 4 Nov 1997 14:42:05 GMT
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In article <345E412A.783C@sandia.gov>,
David M. Sears <dmsears@sandia.gov> wrote:
: What is the recommended procedure for installing Kermit95 after
: some sort of disaster (eg, hard disk crash)? What steps can be
: taken ahead of time to minimize the hurt?
:
The best course is to regularly back up your system, and should it
crash, recover the entire system from your backups. That way, you
don't have to worry about each application.
: 1. Re-install K95 from the original floppys and then apply the
: necessary patches to get to the current version. Seems slow and
: painful.
:
Yes, plus this way you also lose all changes that you have made to
your K95 Dialer database, dialing directories, customization file,
any script programs you might have written, and any other additions,
subtractions, or changes you made to your K95 installation. So this
method must be considered only as a final resort.
: 2. Use some backup program (MS Backup, winzip, whatever) to backup
: the \k95 directory tree to floppy disk(s). After a disaster,
: restore from the backup floppys. What about the registry???
:
Prior to version 1.1.14, Kermit 95 didn't touch the registry for just
this sort of reason. But now, by popular demand, we support desktop
shortcuts. These work by associating the .KSC extension in the
Registry with Kermit 95. Should you lose your hard disk and restore
your K95 directory tree from backups, but you have not backed up your
Registry, you can use the new K95 Registry Tool to restore this
association. It was announced here shortly after K95 was released:
From: cmg@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Christine Gianone)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: New Kermit 95 Registry Utility
Date: 3 Oct 1997 17:37:17 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
This just in (too late for the Kermit 95 1.1.15 patch): a new
utility for Kermit 95 in Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 (not OS/2
or Windows NT 3.x), the Kermit 95 Registry Tool, K95REGTL.EXE.
This is a GUI program that lets you create and remove
associations for Kermit 95 in the Windows Registry, and create
desktop and/or Start Menu shortcuts for Kermit 95 itself and the
Dialer (K95 1.1.14 and later already let you create desktop
shortcuts for individual connections).
The K95 Registry Tool can be downloaded from:
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/k95/utils/w?regtl.exe
where "?" should be replaced by "i" for Intel, "a" for Alpha
platforms, or "p" for the PowerPC.
Assuming you have also not backed up your desktop, then after
re-establishing the .KSC/K95.EXE association with K95REGTL, you can
easily re-create any desired desktop shortcuts by highlighting the
appropriate entry in the Dialer main screen and clicking the Shortcut
button in the Toolbar.
Of course K95 works fine without the Registry features. They are not
required, they are merely a convenience.
But in general, it is best to follow a daily backup schedule with a
rotating set of backup media (such as: Monthly full, Weekly full,
Daily incremental). This is one of downsides to personal computing;
we are each our own system managers; there are no economies of scale
or division of labor except when our applications and data are kept
on centrally maintained file servers.
- Frank