said:
Hi,
>I did an experiment. I backed up volume n: (Bootable JFS, eCS20rc1) to
>W:\n.bak using the arguments above in 4OS/2. I then reformatted n: as
>JFS and copied back from n.bak using the same arguments. N: booted but
>had no desktop. Does this technique work with backing up a bootable JFS
>volume?
It should, but I've not tested this myself yet.
>What might I have done wrong (a loaded question to ask Steven!)?
No, it's a good question to ask. You may or may not have done anything
wrong.
Since you were able to boot to the restored volume, it appears you used
the right chkdsk to reformat.
It may not be allowed to backup to a subdirectory. Did you try my
original suggestion which backed up to the root of the destination volume?
Exactly what commands did you use to backup and restore?
There's a couple of things that can cause a lost Desktop. Try this.
After restoring, but before rebooting, edit config.sys and add
set Desktop=n:\Desktop
and see what happens. If that fails too, try the experiment again using
xcopy and zip rather than 4os2 copy. The zip command should be
zip -9rS zipfile x:/*
Xcopy is known to work when it does not hang during the copy. Zip will
work as long as the zipfile does not exceed 2GB.
While experimenting, you can save yourself a bit of time by hiding the
orginal N: volume and creating another N: volume elsewhere and restoring
to this test volume.
Steven
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