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Date:	Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:09:34 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: UniMaint & CDFS.IFS /W

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> >I can just TREE it against a backup,
> >then, to find any changes. Yes?
>
> No, tree does not show everything. It just shows names.

Well, *somebody* said a coupla messages ago:

>>> You probably changed the \Desktop directory structure

What, in my eyeball A-B comparison, should I look at besides the names?

> >I *have* a UniMaint backup. But I can't open the
> >UniMaint folder. When my daily processing finishes,
> >I'll open a command line window, change to\UNIMAINT,
> >and run unimaint.exe. I think. :)
>
> You don't need to open the Unimaint folder. You need
> to read the manual and understand how restores work.

I read the entire manual. Don't recall anything about "what to do when
the UNIMAINT folder goes kaflooey." :))

When my daily processing finishes, I'll open a command line window,
change to \UNIMAINT, and run unimaint.exe. If that fails I'll reinstall
UniMaint which (hopefully) will correct whatever problem there is with
the folder.

> Just in case you can't figure out how to
> view unimaint.hlp without opening up the
> unimaint folder, to restore from a backup:
>
> - boot to the command line
> you can't restore with the WPS active
> - cd to the directory where you stored the backups
> mine are in a subdirectory of the
> unimaint home dir to limit clutter
> - type sysrestr and press the enter key

Thanks, Steven. What I think I'd better do is make another UniMaint
backup first (assuming I can get UniMaint to run), then follow your
directions and restore the earlier one.

But I'm puzzled by something. You say to run SysRestr, but there's no
such program:

[H:\Maintenance\UniMaint]dir *.exe
5-19-00 12:00p 70028 0 ACSMAINT.EXE
5-19-00 12:00p 72821 0 ACSTEST.EXE
4-11-96 10:52a 133154 4796 GTINST.EXE
4-11-96 10:52a 30880 61 GTLEVEL.EXE
5-19-00 12:00p 67361 0 INICLEAN.EXE
5-19-00 12:00p 52046 0 INICOPY.EXE
5-19-00 12:00p 50637 49 INIFXHLP.EXE
5-19-00 12:00p 35270 49 INIRESET.EXE
5-19-00 12:00p 9007 0 UNICHECK.EXE
5-19-00 12:00p 1178127 261 UNIMAINT.EXE
5-19-00 12:00p 1178117 0 UNISAFE.EXE
5-19-00 12:00p 74369 261 UNIWATCH.EXE
11-29-98 6:43a 137779 0 UNZIP.EXE
1-09-00 4:34a 122416 0 ZIP.EXE

[H:\Maintenance\UniMaint]dir *.cmd
9-07-01 7:23a 2578 0 SYSBACK.CMD

By chance do you mean SysBack? Should I run SysBack (not SysRestr)?

- Peter

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