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Number   :  223
Date     :  2001-06-17
Author   :  Dan Anderson
Subject  :  Re4:  restoring from full CD backup
Size(KB) :  3


Michael, that's good news and adds confirmation to Ken's earlier comments.
Its always good to get several comments on this sort of subject.

I took a look at the website that has the doslfnbk download and it has some
fairly extensive documentation regarding the use of command line switches.
Could you or Ken tell us what line switches you found worked effectively for
the purpose we are discussing here. I know this is somewhat off-topic with
regard to xxcopy but doslfnbk does seem to extend the functionality of
xxcopy in a very important way.

Regards,
...Dan

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----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Marquart 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: Re3: [xxcopy] restoring from full CD backup


>
> Just jumping in here - I backup my Windows installation using ZIP after
> booting to a straight DOS session, and use DOSLFNBK to save the long and
short
> filenames prior to the backup - saving the data file and DOSLFNBK in the
ZIP
> file too. This saves the shortfilenames as they are on the HDD in the
ZIP
> file, and DOSLFNBK saves the longfilenames to the data file.
>
> When it comes to restoring, I can boot to DOS from a boot floppy, or a
> specially prepared bootable cdrom, and then restore the zip and use
DOSLFNBK
> to restore the long filenames.
>
> I have done so twice, and it works a treat for me.
>
> Michael.
>
>
> >Hi again James. I think I may have misconstrued your comment. I would
> >agree that if your computer lets you boot from a CD then you can do what
you
> >have said: create a bootable CD and work from a DOS environment. That
> >would, however, still leave the issue of what process one could then use
to
> >re-establish the WIN98 operating system and programs and would not
resolve
> >the issue of a consistent matching of long and short file name in order
to
> >function in the WIN98 environment.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >...Dan
> >
> >================================
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Dan Anderson 
> >To: 
> >Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 11:21 AM
> >Subject: Re: [xxcopy] restoring from full CD backup
> >
> >
> >>
> >> James, I think Kan can speak to this better than I can but my
> >understanding
> >> is that even with the sys, a CD drive is not the same as a hard drive
with
> >> respect to how the proprietary software has stored information with
regard
> >> to the file names.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> ...Dan
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: james sadler 
> >> To: 
> >> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 8:30 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [xxcopy] restoring from full CD backup
> >>
> >>
> >> > I liked DOS and we used to have tiny hard drives
> >> > back in the day. I wonder if we couldn't sys the cdrw
> >> > drive using xxcopy and then boot to a DOS computer
> >> > that is in fact nothing but a CD drive. If that works
> >> > we should be able to manipulate c: while operating
> >> > from the CD drive.
> >> >
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