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No*STOP SUPRDUPE makes two drives the same. It "synchronizes" them.
Any two drives, so long as the "target" is large enough to hold the data
on the "source".
It works at the DOS logical drive level. Thus, if you want a floppy to look
like C:\WORK, with all of its sub-directories and files, you would do the
following:
SUBST F: C:\WORK
SUPRDUPE F: A:
Or suppose you regularly work on a complex portion of your C: drive and want
better performance. Put it on your RAMdrive, using SUPRDUPE!
Here's an example:
Say you have a structure beginning at C:\WORK which has four sub-directories,
and each sub-directory has several levels beneath it. You would like to
perform your work at RAM speed (without hard disk access penalties).
Here's how:
SUBST F: C:\WORK
SUPRDUPE F: D:
D:>Do your work, all day long, at RAM speed.
When you are finished:
SUPRDUPE D: F:
and the results are back on your C: drive!
(Bear in mind that if your PC dies, data on the RAM drive will be lost. It's
a good idea to run "SUPRDUPE D: F:" every once in a while).
Or suppose you have installed a demo, on your C: drive, of some new
whiz-bang product. You decide you don't like it, but in the meantime
it has created 417 sub-directories, seven levels deep, occupying 7MB,
and has no un-install capability. Scrub it! Here's how:
Create an empty directory on your C: drive or RAMdrive, then:
SUBST F: C:\EMPTY
SUBST G: C:\<demo installation directory>
SUPRDUPE F: G:
It's gone!
Or suppose you have a single PC which houses important applications and data.
Add a removable hard drive or drive with removable media. Any time during the
day, but especially when you go home at the end of the day:
SUPRDUPE C: E: (where E: is the removable)
At the end of the day remove the removable, put it into your briefcase,
and go home.
If your office burns to the ground, get another PC with a drive which can
read the removable, and you're back in business - no data or software lost!
SUPRDUPE sees and synchronizes all files. Hidden, Read Only, Zero-Length,
and, if you tell it to, System. It also reproduces DOS file attributes.
It has batch file capability and sets DOS "errorlevel" for use in batch files.
SUPRDUPE's big brother, No*STOP RECOVERY, will do the same and more for
networked drives. RECOVERY will, for instance, reproduce Novell Netware
Extended Attributes and Ownership. It can be used for remote synchronization
of mobile workstations and automatic docking synchronization. In an unusual
recent application, RECOVERY was used to scrub over two million unused
sub-directories from a Netware 3.12 server in California (where else?!).
Try doing THAT manually!! To be honest about this, it took them several
passes to get it done. Apparently RECOVERY had to be exited occasionally
to run PURGE.
We don't have any idea how they got into that pickle. We don't want to know.
But RECOVERY fixed it. If you are curious, we will pass on your request for
the sordid details. A Compuserve address will probably make more likely the
possibility of an answer, but no guarantees. Maybe they don't want to talk
about it.