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Date:	Sun, 4 Aug 2002 09:49:43 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Your REXX script ...

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In <1028498966-0-Info@SYNass.NET>, on 08/04/02
at 08:09 AM, "Info2SYNass.NET" said:

>... just do the same as now but use PARMS for standard settings i.e.
>Drives, Souces & Target !

That's one option. Some sort of control file would be better. Your
environment variable method could work, but is somewhat clumsy. The
reason for a control file rather than command line arguments is that a
long command lines are hard to read and hard to maintain and the command
line is easy to overflow. That said, just defining the defaults at the
start of the script along with instructions how to edit the site specific
values would work too.

I would expect the backup settings to change slowly over time, so an
easily edited control file seems to be a good solution.

>sensitive part of the script but I must adjust environment
>settings accordingly
>to my system and my needs once and only if my system environments changes
>;-)

Harry could have made the script somewhat more generic by using:

SysDriveMap('C:", 'L')

to locate the drives and by using a stem to store the backup settings for
each drive.

>The rest of your script works like now ;-)

Another thing I would attempt to do is automate the avaiable size logic
somewhat. This could be done by reading the log for the previous backup
and extracting the uncompressed sizes. This can be used to calculate an
average compression ratio. This along with the remaining space in the
container and the backup size from SysDriveInfo() should be a pretty good
estimator.

Steven

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