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Installation
Installation is a very straightforward process. All you need
to do is insert the disk on which FLEXIBAK Plus is located into
the drive, select that drive as the current drive by typing "A:"
or "B:" (depending on the drive in which the disk is inserted)
at the DOS prompt. Now type "INSTALL" and press <ENTER> and then
follow the instructions. Alternatively, if you acquired your copy
of FLEXIBAK Plus by downloading it from a BBS or you prefer to
manually install it, just create a directory on your hard disk
and copy all the files to that directory.
Setting The Alarm
FLEXIBAK Plus has a warning alarm feature that warns you if
you haven't taken a backup recently. To enable this, you should
place the following lines in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file in an
appropriate place. (If you are not sure about the function of the
AUTOEXEC.BAT file or how to alter it, please consult your MS-DOS
reference manual).
x:
CD \FLEXPLUS
FLEXPLUS /A=y
C:
Where 'x' is the hard disk drive where you have installed
FLEXIBAK Plus - if other than drive C - and 'y' is the number of
days after which you wish the alarm to sound.
If you have done this correctly, every time you boot your
computer FLEXIBAK Plus will check to see how long it has been
since the last backup was taken and if it is longer ago than the
specified threshold - 'y' in the above example - an alarm will
be sounded giving you the opportunity to take a backup.
Command Line Parameters
If you are running on a machine with a particularly low
amount of free memory or a particularly high number of files, you
may have trouble getting started with FLEXIBAK Plus as it will
abort with an exception message saying that it has either run out
of memory, file space or directory space. You can override the
initial memory allocation settings of FLEXIBAK Plus by use of
some command line options which can later be set permanently by
using the General Setup option of the Setup menu. To override the
number of files (the default is 4000) that space is allocated
for, use the "/F" command line option and to override the number
of directories (the default is 300), use the "/D" command line
option. For example, if you have a particularly large hard disk,
you might use a command like this:
FLEXPLUS /F=5000 /D=500
This would tell FLEXIBAK Plus to allocate space for 5000
files and 500 directories.