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Date:	Fri, 2 Aug 2002 01:43:45 PST7
From:	sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro)
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Drive Image Backups

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>Start with:

> view rexx

I have started on it. Looks like several nights of good bedtime reading.

>What I would do is derive the unique container name from the current
>date. Try:

> rexxtry say 'C-'date('S')'.dat'

>rexxtry allows you to test snippets of REXX code from the command line.
>I'll e-mail you a code skeleton that handles most of the gory details.

Got it -- thanks. I will see what I can understand.

In the meantime, BackAgain 2000 is more flexible than I realized. My
command line looks like this:

clback -ir c:\* -d h:\cfull.dat -name Cback -compare

I have one such line for each partition. Every time I run the batch file,
Back Again keeps a catalog showing each separate backup with the time and
date. I can probably run this batch file four or five times before the 2.1
GB file limit is reached. At that point, I can swap out the hard drive and
start all over with a new one. If I rotate hard drives the way I rotate
tapes, I should be OK.

One other possibility is to use REXX, if I can figure it out, to change
the file name automatically: i.e: cfull.dat to cfull1.dat, dfull.dat to
dfull1.dat, etc. etc.

That way I could get a little more use from each hard drive, but that is a
minor thing.

Thanks again,

Sandy

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