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Date:	Sat, 31 Aug 2002 21:06:42 PST7
From:	sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro)
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: REXX Interface to BA2K CLBACK

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>Most of your questions concern the fact that the program initially
>creates a set of commandline backups with "so-called" default CLBACK
>options.

>1. For example, concerning your first question. The program puts the
>backup of each partition in the root directory. That's the initially
>created default. You can change all of that by selecting the "Change
>backup options" choice on the "MAIN MENU". The selection will give you
>the "LIST OF COMMANDLINE BACKUPS" window.

Hi Harry,
I had already gone into the config. file and edited the destination
partition manually. It seems now to be working fine.

>2. If you want to change the compare option, that is option#6.

That command was a little obscure for me, but with your directions I was
able to change it without difficulty. Now I get an automatic compare after
backing up each partition.

>3. You can do either of 2 things here to modify one of the backups to
>backup all 5 partitions automatically in sequence. Select one of your
>default commandline backups to do this.

> A. Modify backup option#14 (include files recursively in
>subdirectories). Add add partition one by one to this option. For
>example, the first time, you will change it to add the first partition.
>You will enter "C:\*", for example (without the quotes). Select this
>option again to add the next partition to it ("D:\*", for example).
>Select it again and again to keep adding your desired partitions

I tried that, but when I ran it, only the C:\ partition was backed up.
Somehow I didn't do something right.

> B. Alternatively, you could do the same by selecting option#2 (text file
>list of recursive backups). Then you would have to designate a text file
>that contained a list of your five partitions.

Can you give me something more specific here?

>4. I'm just guessing here, but I must assume that the reason that your
>commandline backup aborted with an "Unexpected drive error" is that you
>did not change the default setup of the C:\ partition backup.

No, the problem is that Fat files have to be 8.3 in size. Once I
redirected the output file to a HPFS partition, it worked fine.

>5. For right now there is no way delete unwanted commandline backups from
>the program other than by manually deleting it from
>BAK2CMD_CONFIG.CMD (that's easy to do, if you want to). Send me the file
>and tell me which one's you want to delete

Ok, here it is. I want to delete the H: and J: partitions, and only back
up C thru G.

Thanks,
Sandy

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