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Number   :  9117
Date     :  2004-11-02
Author   :  culpittsmith
Subject  :  Re: XXCOPY BACKUP/RESTORE
Size(KB) :  1



--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "C. H. Sulka (Digital Technology, 
Inc.)"  wrote:
> John:
> 
I can make a DVD backup of the [C] drive with the
> DVD drive software. . . . . . . .
> Restoring from the backup volume to the hard disk
> was a different story, however. . . . . The only catch
> is the two-step restore process using XXCOPY16 followed by
> XXCOPY itself. 
> CHS

Colin replied 2 Nov '04 :-

I read C H Sulka's 'XXcopy Backup/Restore' posting dated 24 Sept with 
interest, as I too found backing up with XXcopy no problem at all, 
but restoring a re-formatted boot drive after a crash, was a real 
pain!

CHS rightly says that it's possible using XXcopy 16, followed by 
XXcopy32 after a reboot. But this is slow & long filenames not always 
correctly handled by XXcopy16.

I have since found a far easier solution using - dare I say it! - not 
XXcopy16 but a true Dos based utility that really does work! It's 
called LFN Tools & comprises a suite of files for handling long 
filenames under true Dos, including one called LCOPY which is the one 
I used to restore my XXCOPY backup from a slave drive to a clean, 
reformatted master drive.

As I keep a 'lean' Win98SE system, LCOPY took just 7 minutes to 
restore the backup of 810mB. I then booted to that restored drive 
(using a Boot Manager) & it ran perfectly, with all files correctly 
named & the drive fully bootable.

If you want to try it, it's free to download from: 
www.odi.ch/prog/lfn/index.php - the file is LFN.ZIP & is 278kB in 
size. A superb little program & highly recommended !

I hope this is of interest & help to some XXcopy users.

Colin



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