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G F A T H E R
by
John Greenwood
Version 1.1 Compiled 03/11/92
A Public Domain Utility for Wildcat! SysOps
from The Development System BBS
(071) 388 4764
WHAT IT DOES:
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GFATHER allows you to quickley and easily backup data using Grandfather
techniques. You then will have a maximum of 10 archives which will span
around one month (if GFATHER is run once a day). This is safer than
creating a backup each day as you have a range of archives to recover
from. It also takes up less space than creating an backup with each day
number.
SETTING UP:
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Just copy the EXE file to somewhere in you path!
RUNNING THE PROGRAM:
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GFATHER will create its data file in the current directory, so you can
use it for multiple activities just be running it from another directory.
GFATHER basically has two commands. The main function is to pass it a DOS
command with a '@' in the position you want the variable to be inserted.
Eg: in my daily batch file on the BBS :-
CD \WC30\DATA
GFATHER PKZIP BACKUP-@ *.DAT
COPY *.ZIP \WC30\BACKUPS
DEL BACKUP-?.ZIP
This will backup all of the Wildcat datafiles to a ZIP file
named BACKUP-1, BACKUP-2, BACKUP-3 Etc and copy it to C:\WC30\BACKUPS.
There will only ever be 10 archives created spanning a whole month.
If I need to restore data, I can find the latest archive be entering
the directory containing the relavent GFATHER.DAT and typing:
CD \WC30\DATA
GFATHER /HISTORY
This will then show me the date/time and age of the last
ten times GFATHER was executed. I then just unzip the named file
to restore the data.
PROBLEMS, SUGGESTIONS:
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INFORMER is Public Domain. I don't seek or accept any donations
for this. I welcome suggestions, and will try to help (no guarantees) if
there are problems. You may also leave a message via TheNet or my BBS
number above.
To tell the truth, I dont fully understand how the sequence for the number
rotation is decided but it appears to work! The only documentation I have
found on this subject was in an EVEREX Tape Manual.
There are a few error messages written in, but nothing amazing!
REVISION HISTORY:
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Version 1.0 Compiled 01/11/92 First General Release.
Version 1.1 Compiled 03/11/92 It now appears to work!