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- ST-Keep System Backup Program
- Copyright 1992 by Andrew P. Studer
-
- NOTE: This program and associated files may be freely copied as long as it
- remains in its original format.
-
- WARNING: I will not be held responsible for any damage done to your files,
- property, or other possessions as a result of using this program,
- nor do I make any warranties or guarantees regarding this program.
-
- Description
- -----------
- This program will backup, using compression, all the files which you specify
- into a file that is named based on the current date (i.e. 07_06_92.LZH) for
- better file management.
-
- Instructions
- ------------
- The program should be set up as an EVENT within ST-Keep or your unattended
- mailer (although you could run it manually) and doesn't require any
- parameters. It does, however, require a data file from which it reads the
- required information to create the archive. The data file should be named
- STK_BACK.SYS and reside in the same folder as BBS_BACK.PRG. The structure of
- the data file is as follows:
-
- Line 1: pathname to save archived file to (ending with a backslash)
- Line 2: pathname and filename of your archiver
- Line 3: up to 100 lines of files to backup
- ...
- Line 103: last possible file to backup
-
- Example:
-
- F:\BACKUP\
- C:\UTIL\ARC\LHARC.TTP
- C:\BBS\*.SYS
- C:\BBS\MSG\*.MSG
- C:\BBS\SYSOP.MSG
-
- As you can see, I have my archived files sent to the "F:\BACKUP\" folder and
- use LHARC.TTP to archive the files that follow. All the *.SYS files in the
- \BBS folder on drive C: are archived along with any *.MSG files in the \MSG
- folder inside \BBS in addition to the SYSOP.MSG file in the \BBS folder.
-
- Only ARC.TTP and the various LHARC.TTP (LZH201?.TTP, etc...) programs will
- work as the BBS_BACK.PRG utility uses "u" (update) as the archive command.
- The program will add the .ARC or .LZH extension to the date filename as
- required.
-
- The backup will run faster if you use wildcards wherever possible, simply
- because it only executes the archiver program once per line when using
- wildcards, otherwise, it will run the archiver program once for every
- distinct file that it locates in the SYS file. You could, however, type out
- the path and filenames of every single file that you wanted backed up.
-