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Number   :  219
Date     :  2001-06-17
Author   :  Dan Anderson
Subject  :  Re2:  restoring from full CD backup
Size(KB) :  2


Shep, I'll need to defer to others on the question of the WIN98 updates. My
understanding would be that you would be starting with your base WIN98
source files and would need to apply the various updates the same way that
you did in the past unless the microsoft website has 'consolidated' updates
that you could apply.

I would express a word of caution with regard to trying to re-establish your
operating system and programs from a CD backup that has not preserved the
relationship between the long and short file names. The understanding that
it works 90% of the time would be anecdotal and the nature of the potential
problem is such that the process might appear to be working okay when in
fact the installation is flawed and will crash in future or give
unpredictable results. If you have no effective alternative then crossing
ones fingers is okay but you may be building your future work on an unstable
base. I expect Kan agrees that, while xxcopy is very effective in many
ways, until future enhancements are made you should not rely on xxcopy to
create reliable CD backups of your operating system and program environments
(unless that Doslfnbk utility fills the gap?).

Regards,
...Dan

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----- Original Message -----
From: Shep Sweeney 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: [xxcopy] restoring from full CD backup


> Dear Dan,
> Thank you for your quick and informative response. I
> would also like to thank Kan Yabumoto for his input.
> I will have to study both responses thoroughly before
> I can even ask any intelligent questions. Kan's
> discussion of direct CD sounds promising as I use it
> to create the backup CD's and they appear to act just
> like a disk drive. In my case I use 3 CD's: one for
> all programs, one for Windows along with all the
> miscellaneous stuff under C:, and the third CD backs
> up everything else.
> One question I do have though is if one were to
> reinstall Win98 from the Win 98 CD and then re-enter
> all programs etc. how does one get the re-installed
> Win 98(and Internet Explorer) updated with all the
> updates and fixes that have been made over the past
> year or so. Does this happen automatically. I know I
> have a Directory called Windows Updates with a bunch
> of cab files in it, but I do not know what it is used
> for.
> Do you know how one would get all those updates back
> in the re-installed Windows 98?
> Again thank you both for your help,
> Shep Sweeney



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