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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Desktop gone after restoring system from tape
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.214701.11418@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Dec4.134345.27234@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> <1992Dec9.174623.8596@networx.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:47:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec9.174623.8596@networx.com> mikel@networx.com (Mike Lempriere) writes:
- >If you had watched your backup listing carefully, you would probably
- >have seen a message about "can't backup \OS2\OS2SYS.INI -- file in use"
- >and another for "\OS2\OS2.INI". (I think those are the names, just do
- >a "DIR *.INI" in \OS2.) The WPS keeps these files open at all times,
- >with exclusive access. This means backup utilities cannot get at them.
-
- Correction: OS/2-aware backup utilities can indeed get to them.
- (Sytos Plus, for example.)
-
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