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- About Stowaway's Auto Restore
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Stowaway's Auto Restore automates this process.
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- 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- program attempts to access a file that has been archived.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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- If you would like to evaluate Auto Restore, contact Patri-Soft at:
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- (714) 352-2820 Voice
- (714) 352-2825 Data
- (714) 352-1527 Fax
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- 5225 Canyon Crest Dr.
- Suite 71-358
- Riverside CA, 92507
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- Please note that area code 714 changes to 909 in November of 1992
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