Specifying the Input

You must specify an file name, pattern, or folder to copy from. If you give a file name or a TOS wildcard pattern (a name with `*'s and `?'), all matching files will be copied, depending on the `Copy subfolders' switch. For example, E:\FOO will copy all the files in E:\ and its subfolders named FOO. If you give just a foldername, all the files in that folder and its subfolders will be copied. Usually you will be restoring entire folders, in which case you only need to give the name of the folder to restore from. Be sure to start your name with the letter of the drive to copy from, for example A: or B:.

When restoring files backed up by The Vault, you will need to decide which folders to restore from. For example, if you just did a full backup to folder E, then the root directory of the floppy will contain only one folder named E.FUL, and all of the files and folders backed up will be contained in it. To restore those files, you should type A:\E.FUL on the ``input" line. If you are restoring from an incremental backup, there will be folders with names like E.001, E.002, etc. This is because a new folder is created each time you run an incremental backup. Typing A:\E.002 will restore those files saved during the second incremental backup. If you are in doubt about which folder to restore from, look on the backup disk or in the backup history file _BACKUP.HST.