To do a full backup, return to The Vault and click on the menu item labeled Full Backup under the File menu. You are now looking at the input parameters dialog box. The first and most important item here is the `directory to back up'. The Vault can either back up a full drive partition or only part of a file tree. You can enter this information in two ways. Either type it in, or use the `all click' method described below.
The parameter labeled `File selection masks' lets you select which files to back up. Use *.* to include all files. Like TOS wildcards, `*' matches any string of zero or more characters, `?' matches exactly one character, and other characters match themselves. Thus, *.PAS would match only those files whose type is `.PAS', and *2.? would match all files whose name ends with `2' and whose type is a single character.
If you give more than one mask, The Vault uses them from left to right. For example, *.pas *.c backs up all the `.PAS' and `.C' files. A mask preceded by an exclamation point (!) excludes the matching files. For example, *.* !*.BAK backs up all files except the `.BAK' files. Each new mask adds to or subtracts from the set of files specified by all preceding masks. For example, *.* !TEST.* *.C starts with all files, then removes those matching `TEST.*', then adds back all files matching `*.C'. Note that `TEST.C' will be backed up by these rules.
To select the directory to back up entirely with the mouse, click on the `Select Starting Directory' box. The standard file selector will show and you can change the directory displayed in it. When the directory you want to back up is showing in the file selector box, click on OK. The parameter box will reappear with the directory name showing on the line below the buttons. The history file will be written in the starting directory.
The parameter labeled `Directory selection masks' lets you specify which subdirectories of the starting directory above you want backed up. If you want the starting directory and all subfolders, just put a dot (`.') on this line.
Fancier selections can also be made here, and
the parameters on this line are parsed similarly to the paramaters of
the file selection masks line. This line usually starts with a `.',
adding the starting directory and all its subdirectories into the set
of directories to be backed up. Each new mask, which cannot be a
wildcard, adds a directory from this set. As above, if the mask is
preceded by a `!', it is subtracted from the set instead. Usually, a
mask includes or excludes the named directory and all its
subdirectories. If you only want the mask to affect the named
directory and not its subdirectories, precede it with a sharp character
(`#'). All
masks are relative to the starting directory. That is to say, if the
starting directory is E:\R\ and you want to name
the directory E:\R\VAULT\,
VAULT\ would be the correct mask for this. Say the starting
directory is E:\R\. The following examples show
how directory selection masks work.
#.' backs up E:\R\, but not its subfolders.
\ VAULT\SRC\'
backs up E:\R\, E:\R\VAULT\SRC\,
and all of their subfolders except for E:\R\VAULT\.
#!VAULT\' backs up E:\R, the subfolders of
E:\R\VAULT\, and the subfolders of
E:\R\ except for E:\R\VAULT\.
\ !VAULT\ !OBJFILES\' backs up
all of E:\R except for the E:\R\PD\,
E:\R\VAULT\, and
E:\R\OBJFILES\ and all of their subfolders. This
is probably how most directory selection masks will look; one wants to
block out entire subdirectories.
When you have selected all of the input parameters, click on OK and the output parameters box will appear.
The first thing to select here is the name of the backup set you will be using. If you want the starting disk to be other than the value shown (usually 1), you must also type in the starting disk number.
You must also select the name of the output folder. This
name will be used on the full backup and all incrementals to
identify backups of the selected input folder. Although this name
can be only eight characters long, we suggest that you use a name
suggestive of the input name. For example, if you are backing up
the folder E:\RECORDS, you might choose EREC for
the output folder
name. All of the files and folders from E:\RECORDS will be placed
in the folder EREC.FUL. Later incrementals will automatically use
the names EREC.001, EREC.002, etc.