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About Stowaway's Auto Restore
Auto Restore is a complimentary product to Stowaway, Patri-Soft's file
archival system. Stowaway, lets you select files to be moved off your
hard disk to inexpensive diskette storage. The unique feature of
Stowaway is that it keeps hard disk indexes about every file it
stores. These indexes are used to easily locate any file stored on
archive volumes without having to access the individual volumes.
When you need to restore an archived file, Stowaway lets you enter
filenames or wildcard specifications to list and select the file to be
restored. It asks for the disk containing the file and restores it to
its proper location. This is a manual process that must be performed
prior to accessing the file with DOS or any other application. You
must know the file that needs to be restored.
Stowaway's Auto Restore automates this process.
Auto Restore is installed when you start your computer and resides
in your system watching all file accesses. It detects when any
program attempts to access a file that has been archived. It can
do this because Stowaway optionally leaves the archived file on the
hard disk with zero size and a time of 12:00am and therefore the
file occupies no space but is still visable. When any program tries
to read or write one of these files, Auto Restore searches
Stowaway's archive indexes to verify the file is archived and, if
so, displays a window on your display to tell you an archived file
has been referenced and asks if you would like to restore it for
processing.
If you respond yes to restore the file, Auto Restore then asks you to
place the archive volume in the drive and proceeds to restore the
file. If you respond no, Auto Restore notifys DOS, and subsequently
your program or command, the file is inaccessable. The program or
command accessing the file will take its normal action when a file is
not accessible.
After the restore is complete, the text window is removed from your
display and the active program or command continues its normal
operation. Auto Restore goes back to waiting for the next archived
file to be accessed.
Auto Restore gives you additional freedom to archive more files to
offline storage volumes. Since it takes care of all restore processing
automatically, you can archive files and trust they will be
immediately accessible anytime they are needed.
Since Stowaway keeps the files on your system (even though they
take NO space), you still can list and search for files as you have
always been able to do. But they no longer take up valuable hard disk
space
If you would like to evaluate Auto Restore, contact Patri-Soft at:
(714) 352-2820 Voice
(714) 352-2825 Data
(714) 352-1527 Fax
5225 Canyon Crest Dr.
Suite 71-358
Riverside CA, 92507
Please note that area code 714 changes to 909 in November of 1992