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Backing up the DESKTOP 7/15/94
OSWPBACK.FAX
BACKING UP AND RESTORING A DESKTOP
To Backup a Desktop
1. Go to the system which has the desktop you wish to backup.
2. Boot off of the OS/2 Installation Diskette, insert Diskette 1 when prompted
and hit Enter; at the Welcome Screen hit Escape to get to a: prompt.
3. Place a blank diskette in drive a:.
4. Use the BACKUP command to backup the DESKTOP directory and all
subdirectories to the diskette:
BACKUP C:\DESKTOP A: /S (Where C: is where OS/2 resides)
5. When the Backup is completed, insert another blank diskette in the a: drive
and copy OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI from your OS2 subdirectory to the floppy:
COPY C:\OS2\OS2*.INI A:
Change to the root directory. We need to copy the WP?ROOT.?SF file to floppy;
however, as it is hidden, system and read only we need to attrib it first:
ATTRIB WP?ROOT.?SF -H -R -S
Then we can copy it:
COPY WP?ROOT.?SF A:
To Restore a Desktop
1. Go to the system on which you want to restore a desktop.
2. Boot off of the OS/2 Installation Diskette, insert Diskette 1 when prompted
and hit Enter; at the Welcome Screen hit Escape to get to a: prompt.
3. Change to the drive where OS/2 resides, change to your OS2 subdirectory and
delete your OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI files:
DEL OS2*.INI
If you get "Access Denied" type:
ATTRIB OS2*.INI -R (then you will be able to delete them)
4. Copy the OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI files from the above floppy to your OS2
subdirectory. From your a: prompt type:
COPY OS2*.INI C:\OS2
5. Type the following two commands:
MAKEINI OS2.INI INI.RC
MAKEINI OS2SYS.INI INISYS.RC
6. Change to your DESKTOP subdirectory and remove all subdirectories and delete
all files and once the DESKTOP subdirectory is empty, remove it itself (you
should have no subdirectory named DESKTOP on your harddrive).
7. Restore the desktop you backed up above:
RESTORE A: C: /S
8. Change to the root directory. We need to delete the WP?ROOT.?SF file;
however, as it is hidden, system, and read only we need to attrib it first:
ATTRIB WP?ROOT.?SF -H -R -S
Then we can delete it:
DEL WP?ROOT.?SF
Copy the WP?ROOT.?SF from the above floppy to your root directory.
From your a: prompt type:
COPY WP?ROOT.?SF C:
Now attrib it. From your root directory type:
ATTRIB WP?ROOT.?SF +H +R +S
9. Take out any floppies and reboot off of your harddrive.
12/31/99