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- From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
- Subject: Re: Backup Progs for HPFS
- References: <msf.713666217@skaro> <713836152snx@juvat.UUCP>
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- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 14:13:10 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.141310.19972@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <713836152snx@juvat.UUCP> jim@juvat.UUCP (Jim Kunzman) writes:
- >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
-
- It can even backup (with EA's and compression) to floppy disks, at least
- the version I have, can do so.
-
- >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.
-
- And GTAK *allows* this. People with fancy PM backup programs (such as
- SYTOS Plus) will have problems doing that :-). Even if one could backup
- all files from the running system, it may be a better idea doing it from
- a boot floppy, because this way the system is saved in a consistent
- (shutdown) state. Restoring it later (also from a boot floppy) onto a
- new disk should deliver a ready-to-run system.
-
- >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.
-
- The GTAK software has one nice feature (available only with Tandberg
- streamers and SCSI-2 streamers), it allows to pick single files off
- large tapes (I have a 1GB drive) with direct access.
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
-
- /* Kai Uwe Rommel --- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de */
-
- DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
- handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams
-
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