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Date:	Tue, 8 Apr 2003 12:54:23 PDT
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: system backup zip suggestions ?

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Peter Skye wrote:

>As an additional safety measure I'm going to start backing
>up my system files to my Maintenance Partition. I make
>daily backups; this is just an extra precaution.
>
>Here is my backup code. Suggestions are more than welcome.
>
> set bootdrv=G
>
> :: Zip options: -S include system and hidden files
> :: -r recurse into directories
> :: The default action is to add or replace zipfile entries
>
> zip syBackup.zip %bootdrv%:\CONFIG.SYS
> zip -S syBackup.zip %bootdrv%:\OS2\OS2*.INI
> zip syBackup.zip %bootdrv%:\OS2\DLL\dock*.cfg
> zip syBackup.zip %bootdrv%:\OS2\DLL\SCENTER.CFG
> zip -Sr syBackup.zip %bootdrv%:\Desktop\*
>
>Should I include any other files? Are my options okay?
>
>I can't figure out how to get zip to store the actual
>directory path to the files. For example, CONFIG.SYS
>is stored without a leading \ so it won't unzip by
>default to the root directory. I'd like to store the
>absolute path if anyone knows how to do so.
>
>- Peter
>
Two possibilities:

Those files do not take a lot of space, don't ZIP, copy to a directory
with the same structure as your boot drive.

ZIP the complete boot partition. Mine is about 150M.

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