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Date:	Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:39:35 PST7
From:	Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Drive Image Backups

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Sandy,

By the way, I believe that BA 2K has a scheduler. I no longer have
version 2.10d, so I'm not absolutely sure, but I'm pretty sure. If so,
using the commandline is so unnecessary. Instead, you can set up your
backup catalog files, *.BST, to backup the desired files/directories and
save it to the desired backup device (your hard drive). Then, you can
configure your BA 2K scheduler to use the desired backup catalog
file(s). It would all be automatic (almost). You would have to intervene
only to change the name of the backup file to something unique each time
you make a backup (thereby placing each backup in its own separate *.DAT
file and not violating the 2.1GB file limit).

HCM
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Harry Chris Motin wrote:
>
> Sandy,
>
> I also used Back Again 2000, version 2.1d, until about a year ago (I
> believe that was the latest download update from CDS before their
> release of version 3.00 A). I now use version 3.00 A.
>
> I never back up to tapes - too slow for me. I use the hard drive
> partitions. I do exactly what you suggested: a.) use compression on the
> backups and 2.) back up each partition to a separate *.DAT file.
>
> On my system I have 2 physical hard drive units. The first one is
> partitioned as follows (approximately):
>
> C:\ 8,193 MB
> E:\ 19,767 MMB
> F:\ 13,000 MB
>
> The second hard drive is D:\ and is approx. 35.7 GB in size. My OS/2
> system is on C:\ and I use only ~1,800 MB. I save my document files on
> D:\ and use ~ 2,500 MB there. That leaves me free to put my backups on
> E:\. I save several backup generations on E:\, and for safety reasons, I
> also keep a copy of my latest backup on D:\.
>
> I backup C:\ and D:\ and place them in their own separate *.DAT backup
> file. It takes me ~30 minutes to backup C:\ and about 15 minutes to
> backup D:\ Backing up the OS/2 system files in C:\OS2 makes the C:\
> backup take a little longer.
>
> HCM
> ______________________________________________________________________________
>
> Sandy Shapiro wrote:
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> > >Sandy,
> >
> > >I use Back Again 2000. I swear by it. It's easy, fast, highly
> > >configurable and it can be scheduled just as you like it. In short, it's
> > >highly automated.
> >
> > That is very helpful. I am using BA 2K version 2.10d. It works well with
> > tapes, and I am now used to it.
> >
> > The question is how to back up to a hard drive and deal with the 2.0
> > megabyte file limit. I see that I can do it by giving each partition a
> > separate backup name, instead of appending all to one file, like with
> > tapes.
> >
> > I suppose I could run this from a command line, and combine the commands
> > into a batch file to run them automatically.
> >
> > Do you back up to hard drives?
> > Which version of BA 2K do you use?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sandy
> >
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