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- OSWPBACK.FAX
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- BACKING UP AND RESTORING A DESKTOP
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- To Backup a Desktop
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- 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:
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- To Restore a Desktop
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- 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.
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