said:
Harry,
Forgot one thing. Spanning CD-RW's should not be a problem for me. I
have only 1.5 gigs of files in seven directories on a 15 gig hard drive.
Most in any drive is 400 kb.
Jack
>On Thu, 1 May 2003 19:53:11 PDT7, Martin Rosenfeld wrote:
>>Maybe you or some of the other gurus can help me to set up a backup
>>system. I have BA2KSV and RSJ.
>Martin,
>I can probably help you. I have Back Again/2000 server (BA2K) and its
>crash recovery diskette system. I do backups to a second hard drive. I
>also have RSJ, but I have not been able to figure out how to make
>backups that span 2 or more CD's (BA2K does not correctly read the
>backup info on the CD's). Here's what I do:
>1. Use BA2K and make full backups to a second hard drive
>2. Use BA2K-created crash recovery diskettes to restore my full system
>from one of the backups stored on the second hard drive
>I use the OS/2 utility diskettes (4 diskettes), not the BOOTOS2 diskettes
> (2 diskettes), to create the BA2K crash recovery diskette system. BA2K
>gives you the choice of using one or the other.
>I'll guide you through the procedure of using the OS/2 utility diskettes,
> and not the BOOTOS2 diskettes. Here's the procedure:
>A. Open your BA2K folder and double click on the "Make Disaster Recovery
>Diskettes" icon (if you want to use the BOOTOS2 diskettes, double click
>on the "Make Disaster Recovery Diskettes BOOTOS2" icon)
>B. Follow the instructions to create the disaster recovery
>diskettes. The first step is to create the OS/2 utility diskettes. Do
>that by double clicking on the "System Setup" folder, which is inside
>your "OS/2 System" folder on your desktop. Then double click on the
>"Create Utility Diskettes" icon inside the "System Setup" folder. Follow
>the directions there. You will need 4 formatted, but blank diskettes and
>also the Warp installation CD.
>C. After you have created the OS/2 utility diskettes continue to follow
>the BA2K directions for creating the BA2K crash recovery diskettes. You
>will need to insert the correct utility diskettes into the drive bay,
>when directed. Also, you will need another blank, formatted diskette.
>D. After you have finished you will have 5 diskettes. Four will be from
>the OS/2 utility diskette procedure. Label them Diskette 0 through
>Diskette 3. The last diskette, Diskette 4, will be from the BA2K crash
>recovery diskette procedure.
>E. The BA2K procedure tries to update the CONFIG.SYS file
>(Diskette 1) with any new drivers that you are using on your system (for
>example, Daniela's IDE drivers instead of the IBM driver). It usually
>does a good job of this. Sometimes, however, it will over do it. For
>example, in my case it copies updates the CONFIG.SYS file with the
>Crystal audio drivers that are on my system and also the Norman
>antivirus programs. When using the diskettes, the Crystal drivers cause
>the bootup to trap. Therefore, I removed the Crystal driver lines from
>the CONFIG.SYS. I also removed the Norman antivirus stuff. I don't need
>it, when booting from diskettes.
>F. Copy any important OS/2 utility programs that you might need to
>Diskette 4 (for example, ATTRIB.EXE, CHKDSK.COM,
>CHKDSK32.DLL)
>G. I also placed several OS/2 *.CMD files on Diskettes 3 and 4, which
>help me restore my system from the diskettes
>H. Test out your crash recovery boot diskettes. Boot from them and make
>sure you can successfully boot. No traps. No problems. You will use
>Diskettes 0, 1 and 2 to boot up to a minimal OS/2 commandline system.
>You will use Diskette 3 to prepare your system for the restoration of
>your backup. That is, use Diskette 3 to: partition the hard drive,
>format the hard drive, run DIR, run ATTRIB, copy files, erase files,
>etc. Don't do this, of course, unless you really are restoring your
>system
>I. After you have successfully booted to a minimal OS/2 system (using
>Diskettes 0 through 3), insert Diskette 4 and type and enter "baii" at
>the commandline. This will load the BA2K crash recovery program and your
>mouse will become active. Test out the crash recovery program. Prove
>that you can find any of your backups (backups stored on a second hard
>drive, or written to CD, using RSJ). You can go as far as selecting and
>loading a backup into the crash recovery. Don't hit the "OK" button to
>start the recovery. Don't go that far.
>J. If you can do all that, you then have a good crash recovery system
>with BA2K.
>K. If you can go that far, I'll help you create some helpful *.CMD files
>for Diskette 3 to automate some processes.
>HCM
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