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Date:	Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:35:36 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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Wayne,

Actually, Computer Data Strategies, CDS, is offering something called an
IFS bundle. What that is is Back Again 2000 and RSJ as a bundle. Back
Again 2000 will efficiently backup your entire system. It includes crash
recovery software to bring your system back up from scratch. RSJ is
software for using CD-R-RW recorders. You can create (burn) music and/or
data and/or mixed mode CD's. It also has a CD label and jewel box label
creation tool. Using the 2 products together you can backup to one or
more CD-R's or CD-RW's.

As an alternative to RSJ you can use CD Recorder and the various user
interfaces that people have created for it. CD Recorder and the various
interfaces are either free or inexpensive shareware. I believe that they
are all available at Hobbes. Also, Gary Wong of the SCOUG often
highlights CD Recorder in his download articles on
http://www.scoug.com/. Also OS/2 Ezine and VOICE have carried several
articles on CD Recorder.

I did not find a price for the IFS bundle on the CDS website (however,
they do mention and advertise it there). Nevertheless, Back Again 2000
Workstation is $95, alone, and RSJ, purchased alone, is $145. I use both
products and I brought them as a bundle a couple of months ago. They
work great!

See the following websites:

http://www.cds-inc.com/

https://www.rsj.de/

Just in case you wanted to know!

HCM
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Wayne Cypress wrote:
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> >>Wayne wrote:
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> >> Drive Image looks as though it could do the job for me by copying
> >> the D: partition to another hard drive as a file (via boot-up Dr
> >> DOS diskettes) and then "restored" later the same way if need be.
> >> Anyone have comments on that? I don't have any removable media to
> >> write to except for diskettes.
>
> > Those .PQI partition image files get to be large enough that you
> > need a CD-burner. Even a 250M. zip disk won't be enough. I don't
> > know if the images can be spanned to diskette (DI 4.0 is supposed
> > to offer spanning to multiple CD's, if necessary), but you would
> > find the process to be excruciating.
>
> > Jordan
>
> As I said, my hope is to use Drive Image to save my systems partition to
> another physical hard drive. Last time I looked into a CD burner, I seem to
> recall that it cost $250 for the needed software to support OS/2, in
> addition to the cost of the Burner, and only certain Burners are supported.
> Unless perhaps a burner is supported by the standalone diskette version of
> Drive image, which is a possibility I guess, if one was willing to limit
> use of the Burner to this alone. Hard drives are pretty cheap these days
> (you can buy a whole lot of gigs for $250!), and I don't need to keep
> multiple generations of my system drive.
>
> Am I correct about the extra $250 cost of needed OS/2 software for a CD
> Burner?
>
> Any comments on the viability of using PowerQuest's Drive Image to save my
> OS/2 system partition to another hard drive?
>
> One potential problem is that I use the old IBM Extended Edition database
> for a hobby application I wrote some years back, and there may be database
> pointers kept on the systems partition that could render my database (kept
> on another partition) inoperable after a Drive Image restore.
>
> Thanks,
> Wayne
>
> BTW, no hangs yesterday or today... too soon to know for sure if it's
> cured. Any reason to believe the newer AIC7870.* files did the trick?
>
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