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Date:	Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:33:03 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Using Infozip to backup

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In <3DAF0C22.A6208048@charter.net>, on 10/17/02
at 11:14 AM, Ray Davison said:

>> You need to boot to the maintenance partition or to diskettes. If you
>> don't do that, zip will skip the files it can not access you will not have
>> a complete backup.
>>
>It also seems to work across a network; to ZIP a running system from
>another machine. Does this make sense?

It's all about accessibilty. If the application can access the file and
the EA's, the backup will be fine. This is no different than using BA2K
or whatever that back up a laptop across the network. You know have to
understand which files will not be backed up.

Steven

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