DesktopBackup for OS/2 Updated
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DesktopBackup for OS/2 Updated |
DeskTop Backup (DTB) for OS/2
Warp has just been updated by PillarSoft with automated backups and
redundacy storage. You can download it clicking the logo below.
DeskTop Backup is a simple tool that works with InfoZip's Zip (v2.2) and Unzipsfx to build a self-extracting zipfile containing your essential desktop and other configuration information. There is no magic or slight of hand concerning it's use and one can do the same work from the command line along with the InfoZip utilitities. DeskTop Backup merely makes it a bit more automated and will also help you decide what files may be important to archive. DTB will also help find and list important files on your drive so you are able to do a more detailed backup than the standard OS/2 system desktop archive will give you. You may add to the "suggested" file listings or do a separate setup of your own important files and directories as well. Such as? Well... maybe you want to do an archive of business correspondance or maybe back up a development directory every so often. You can do them on demand or automatically as well. Saving several distinctive backup setups to be performed on demand or automatically is easily handled by DTB. You can also scan the chosen drive for existence of suggested files whenever you feel an update of the information is needed. (new files important to your desktop may have appeared since the last setup) As usual, we try to stay away from cryptic scripts etc so "AutoStart" backups are simple point and click setups that update your situation automatically with just a mouse click. You can also save multiple archive setups and recall them at will as well as setting the scheduler to run automatically at startup to archive by "days between archives" or "day of the week".
DTB - DeskTop Backup DeskTop Backup is a simple tool that works with InfoZip's Zip (v2.2) and Unzipsfx to build a self-extracting zipfile containing your essential desktop and other configuration information. There are no great and deep mysteries concerning it's use and one can do the same work from the command line along with the InfoZip utilitities. DeskTop Backup merely makes it a bit more automated and will help you decide what files may be important to archive. In general, your procedure with DeskTop Backup will be: Select a drive (your bootdrive) to archive information from Select a name (fully qualified name is required) for the archive Locate Zip.exe (must be version 2.2) and Unzipsfx.exe. DeskTop Backup will locate these two files automatically if possible Have DeskTop Backup make suggestions as to what files are available on the chosen drive that may be important in relation to your setup or desktop Delete any files from the suggested listing that you will not require in your archive Select any other files that you may wish to archive on the selected drive Press the "Build" button and let it work
To recover your desktop or configuation files you need only: Boot from a boot disk to the drive you are recovering Execute the backup archive on the root of the drive you are recovering Reboot normally to the drive you are recovering DeskTop Backup will save all of your backup information when a backup is performed or you can save several distinctive backup setups to be performed on call or automatically. It will also still scan the chosen drive for existence of the files listed when a setup is loaded just in case there have been changes since the last running. (new configuration files may have appeared or possibly some are missing since the last run) "AutoStart" backups are simple point and click setups that update your situation automatically with just a mouse click. You can also save multiple archive setups and recall them at will as well as setting the scheduler to run automatically at startup to archive by "days between archives" or "day of the week". If you are using Warp4 in combination with fp10 and Objext Rexx, please download the standard zip archive. The archives are approximately 400k. Download: dtb.zip Dated: 5/12/99 Standard zip archive Download: dtb.exe Dated: 5/12/99 Self-extracting installer
What's new?
PillarSoft have added some scheduling features and the interface has changed somewhat. This version allows backups to take place automatically from the "startup folder" depending on your settings. There are provisions for doing backups for as many different setups as you please and they can each be based on: Number of days between backups. Backup dependant on day of the week. All automated backups will be able to be setup and activated from the main DTB program. Old backups are now saved also for as many generations as you care to save them.
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