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Number   :  3845
Date     :  2003-02-25
Author   :  CBFalconer
Subject  :  Re: Need help backing up files on a faulty hard drive using
Size(KB) :  1


"ylihao " wrote:
> 
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> 
> Is there anyway do use XXCOPY in plain DOS command-line mode? I
> urgently need some help right now as I don't wanna lose all the
> files in the faulty hard drive. The main consideration now is to
> retain the long file name of the files and directories.

Duncan Murdoch has a program called 'DOSLFNBK', which scans and
creates a backup file holding the long filenames that correspond
to the short filenames. Run it, backup up the system, including
the name backup file, restore the disk, restore the longfilenames
from the backupfile (again with doslfnbk). Just the scenario it
was written for.

http://www8.pair.com/dmurdoch/programs/

[1] c:\c\junk>doslfnbk /?
DOSLFNBK 2.5b Copyright (c) 1995,2000 D.J. Murdoch
Backs up/restores Win9x long filenames in DOS
Syntax:
DOSlfnbk directory [options]
will back up all the long filename records in the named directory
and
subdirectories of it to BACKUP.LFN in the current directory.
Options:
/all Back up all filenames
/auto Accept default on all prompts
/f filename Back up to this file instead
/force Go ahead with unsafe request with no questions
/from pathname Restore names from this path in the backup file
/h Use high-level disk access
/l List contents of backup file
/na No attributes: don't back up or restore attributes
/nf No full restore check
/nr No recursive: don't back up subdirectories
/nt Don't restore times from LFN backup
/o Always overwrite existing LFNs
/orphans Go ahead if LFN damage is found
/p Prompt for each file before restoring the LFN
/r Restore from existing backup
/s directory Skip directory
/v, /q Verbose or quiet: Give running status report or not
/d filename Write debug information to file

-- 
Chuck F (cbfalconer@y...) (cbfalconer@w...)
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