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Date:	Thu, 1 May 2003 19:26:23 PDT7
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com > ,
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: files not found

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Butch,

You should seriously think about a good backup (archiving) system for your machine. It will save
you quite a lot of headaches, please believe me! Everyone does it differently because of various
personal likes and dislikes. However, everyone who does it well, has a good system in place and
vise-versa. Specifically:

1. He knows its strengths and weaknesses

2. He knows how to access and use it in an emergency (like when your system hangs
on boot).

3. He has made frequent backups and can choose one from a selection of several
from which to restore (maybe there are 5 or 10 backups). The backups include full backups,
desktop backups (*.INI files and the WarpCenter) and CONFIG.SYS backups

4. He knows what he will get, if he restores to this backup, or that one (no surprises)

Now, I use Back Again 2000 for the full backups and UniMaint for the desktop and CONFIG.SYS
backups. Steven uses UniMaint. Peter uses XCopy and one or more script files (I think). They are
all different. Nevertheless, each of us knows how to access and use them, if and when needed.

I'm not sure you fully appreciate what the Warp archiving system can and cannot do and how and
when to use it. If that is true, you do not have a good system.

We can help you, if you like. We can help you understand the in's and out's of one method versus
another. If you don't get a good one and understand it, you are going to suffer.
HCM

On Thu, 1 May 2003 17:09:10 PDT7, Steven Levine wrote:

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>In <20030501101157.23c85a59.eyeleica@lvcm.com>, on 05/01/03
> at 10:08 AM, Butch Langel said:
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>>Status window. The mouse would move, but nothing on the desktop but the
>>archive status window. I had to cntrl-alt-delete to reboot and the same
>>thing happened.
>
>Sounds like a problem in the \OS2\ARCHIVE directory. Perhaps you blew
>away the directory to make space or a control file got munged.
>
>>My next move was to start in revovery mode. I selected the 0 option (
>>original settings) and started up. Now when I start the system I am
>>getting these error messages:
>
>Bad move. You just blew away your prior setup with no easy way of getting
>it back. You told OS/2 to put config.sys and the Desktop back to the
>state they were at the last time ARCHINST ran. This was probably when you
>installed Warp.
>
>You could have fixed the boot hang without this, but that would have
>required asking questions before taking action.
>
>> SYS1718 Sustem cannot find the file C:\MPTN\PROTOCOL\IFNDIS.SYS
>>specified
>> in the DEVICE statement on line 21 of the CONFIG.SYS file. Line 121
>>is
>> ignored. Press enter to continue.
>
>You must have deleted the files at some point. This does not appear to be
>a simple driver load failure.
>
>>The system then boots and the desktop appears. Colors and icons
>>sometimes appear abnormal and the system is freezing at times.
>
>This could be hardware or could be software.
>
>>Any explanations for the cause and recommendations for corrections?
>
>The reason for the problem is operator malfunction.
>
>To recover, I would edit CONFIG.SYS and REM out the DEVICE statement for
>the files that are gone. Then I would spend some time checking hardware
>connections. Then I would spend some quality time with CHECKINI. After
>that, run ARCHINST from the command line so you have an usable Desktop
>backup to matches the installed files.
>
>You might want to consider reinstalling your video drivers after this.
>
>Steven
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