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- From: jim@juvat.UUCP (Jim Kunzman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Backup Progs for HPFS
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <713836152snx@juvat.UUCP>
- References: <msf.713666217@skaro>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 23:49:12 GMT
- Organization: Headhunters (80th TFS, USAF/PACAF)
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- msf@skaro.as.arizona.edu writes in article <msf.713666217@skaro>:
- >
- > I've gotten my hard disk all setup like I want it and so now I want to
- > back it up. I would like something which does compression as its backing
- > things up. I looked at a program from hobbes called OBACKUP, but i had
- > little luck getting itt to work. I'm running OS/2 V2.0. I started OBACKUP
- > in a full screen session. I was able to mbackup a single file, but
- > it would always abort (with no messages) when I tried to backup the entire
- > drive. I am sure I was following the instructions correcly. Has anyone
- > else got this program to run? Or are there other backup programs which
- > do compression?
- >
- > thanks
- > michael fulbright
- > msf@as.arizona.edu
- >
-
- I use Andreas Kaiser's gtak available via ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. It
- supports compression and I can re-route the output to a device/file of
- choice. It also saves extended attributes (EAs). If you have an
- Adaptec AHA154X adapter, gtak will allow you to save the output to a
- SCSI tape drive. If you don't, then you can save it to a file for
- backup to tape by another program, e.g. one running under DOS. There
- are a few limitations:
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- If you want to save all of your OS/2 system files, you will need to
- boot from a set of floppy disks and run gtar without multi-tasking and
- PM running. So far, I haven't seen any backup programs get around this
- limitation, so gtak isn't alone.
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- You might need to keep a FAT partition. If your backup program runs
- only under DOS for example, you will need to save gtak's output to
- a file on the FAT partition and then copy it from there to tape.
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- If you want the output to go directly to tape, you will definitely
- need a drive that works with the ASPI SCSI drivers. You will also
- need the latest Adaptec drivers, OS2ASPI.DMD dated Jul 29 &
- AHA154x.ADD dated Jul 30.
-
- This isn't pretty, but it's cheap and it works. Good luck and may
- you never need to use the backups that you don't have.
-
- --
- Jim Kunzman
- jim@tct.COM OS/2 is dead. Long live OS/2!
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