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Date:	Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:55:31 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Drive Image Backups

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In <3D48DBD2.240E@peterskye.com>, on 07/31/02
at 10:58 PM, Peter Skye said:

>-- They promised that spanned archive volumes would be forthcoming in a
>future release (don't know if that was ever done). Thus, a 5 GB
>"container" file could be "spanned" into three files of 2 GB, 2 GB and 1
>GB which would all be HPFS-compatible.

That would be handy although it does not appear to have hit the top of the
list yet.

>files in root directories that were after \Mirrors\. That way I could
>manually figure out how to keep from hitting the 2 GB limit and backup
>accordingly. Didn't get very far with that request. Steven is

That I can understand.

>correct that I could write a program which would analyze the root
>directory's subdirectories and appropriately create backup sets -- but
>what a pain to have to do it this way.

Only until you have the code written. Then it's transparent.

>smaller files, so I switched to XCOPY. It gets the job done. I suppose
>I could make my backup drive JFS and then go back to compressing the

JFS is not a solution unless BA2K/Server does the containers right and
uses the large file API's.

>I've looked at backing up over the Internet to an off-site backup server
>but my DSL transmission speed would make this a 24x7 project (it would
>take more than 24 hours to backup my data *and* I like to backup every

I'm more the type that runs staged backups. I do differentials often.
Full backups get done less often. The only thing I don't handle
automatically is removing deleted files after a restore. Eventually, I'll
add procedures to include a full file list to the differential.

>of won't delete such files (and files which you've renamed are then in
>the backup with both the old and new names). Back Again/2000 Server, as
>far as I know, doesn't do mirroring.

True, AFAIK too.

Steven

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