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Date:	Sat, 31 Aug 2002 16:02:50 PST7
From:	Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: REXX Interface to BA2K CLBACK

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OK,

I can answer most of your questions right away. A couple of them I'll
have to think about.

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. Select the commandline backup
you wish to modify. For example, select the one for the C:\ partition.
That will give you the "CHANGE OPTIONS FOR BACKUP #..." window. Next,
select choice #3 in that window to review the options that are selected
for that backup (it this point they are all the default options). After
you have reviewed all the backup options (there are 25 of them) you will
automatically return back to the "CHANGE OPTIONS FOR BACKUP #..."
window. From here you can then select the option that you want to
change. Press the ENTER key to cycle through each option one at a time.
Or, select #2 to skip ahead or skip to a particular option number (you
have to know what option you want).

There are 25 commandline backup options. The first 24 are the same ones,
in order, as listed on pages 39 and 40 of the Back Again/2000 User Guide
(ba2000.pdf). Alternatively, they are listed in the Back Again/2000
online help. The 25th backup option is a new one that I created. It
enables/disables a warning, if it is likely that your next backup will
result in file size larger than the max file size limit (2GB).

Backup Option#7 is the one you actually want here (Backup to Device).
You can change where the backup will be stored. Under this option (#7)
you can backup to a SCSI tape device, backup to an EIDE tape device or
backup to a logical drive, like C:\

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

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

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.

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. And as a
result, the default probably contains some commandline option choices
that are not appropriate for your system. Please send me a copy of your
BAK2CMD_CONFIG.CMD file and I can review it.

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

hCM

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Sandy Shapiro wrote:
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> >Attached please find a REXX script that I wrote to automate the use of
> >the Back Again/2000 commandline backup facility (CLBACK.EXE). It is
> >pretty "bullet-proof", I think. It really eases the use of CLBACK.EXE
>
> >To use it you need to do the following:
>
> > 1. Copy it to the same directory as CLBACK.EXE
>
> > 2. Have REXX installed on your system
>
> > 3. Have a color monitor
>
> > 4. Run it as an ordinary REXX program from the commandline (do not use
> >PMREXX)
>
> >When you start it up, it will configure itself and provide you with
> >instructions. Try it out and let me know what you think.
>
> Wow, Harry, that is an impressive program.
>
> OK, a few questions:
>
> First, this program puts the backup data file in the root directory of the
> drive being backed up, and not on my backup drive. I assume I can just go
> into the configuration file and change that? (It looks easy to do).
>
> Second, it doesn't do a compare after the backup. I assume that is also
> something I can edit?
>
> Third, I have to backup each partition individually. I currently have a
> batch file I have been using to backup five partitions automatically in
> sequence. Is there a way I can do that using your program?
>
> Last, the first partition, the "C" drive aborts with :"OS2 API error
> code=206(x00ce) Unexpected drive error."
>
> I think that is probably because that is a FAT partition, and I suspect I
> can cure the problem by pointing the destination to my backup hard drive
> (see the first question).
>
> Also, the configuration part of the program recognized seven partitions
> (including my backup drive) and added them to the menu. Is there a simple
> way to remove the extra partitions that are being referred to?
>
> Thanks,
> Sandy
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