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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

4900.0. "HELP ON MRBACKUP Please.." by POLAR::RIDGE () Mon Jul 15 1991 20:16

    I have lost my MRBACKUP listing of my Hard disk and would like to reprint
    one.  All the documentation I have read doesn't say if I can do it.
    
    Can anyone help on this?
    
    Thanks

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
4900.1	An answer plus a new question	CX3PST::WSC017::A_ANDERSON	CSC32::A_Anderson NSU/VAX DTN 592-4170	`Mon Oct 14 1991 14:46`	39
	RE .0 Select Restore. Then you will be given the option to rebuild the catalog file. Now I have a question: I downloaded the MRbackup 5.02 from the Fred Fish disk. It took 25 floppies to back up my DH0:. So I decided to use LHARC to compress the entire DH0: disk into one .lzh file. The command I used was: lharc -x -r -b32 -w:ram: -m a DH3:DH0_BCK.LZH DH0:* I then used MRbackup to save this file on 16 floppies. A definite saving in time as the LHARC can run over night unattended. Plus since I have enough disk space to keep the .LZH files on line I can use LHARC to restore a file quickly if I need to with out fumbling through floppies. The problem occurs when I attempt to restore the Bigfile. MRbackup ask for the first floppy. It restores that OK. I then get a requester to remove the floppy in DF0:. I click on Ok and it aborts due to no units ready. If I place the second floppy in DF0: then click OK it still ask me to remove the floppy from DF0: again. If I persist and click OK with the second floppy in DF0: it evtually aborts with a no units ready. How do you make MRbackup request or look for the second floppy? Is this a restriction in the non comercial version?. Has anyone tried to do this with any of the comercial backup programs? The resulting file ended up being over 14MB. My test file was ony 8MB or 7 floppies. If you can save a BigFile to multiple floppies I would think a restore option would be a necessary feature. Nothing in the documentation mentions that this is a missing from the Pd distributed version. The Comercial version includes a tape driver and a differant floppy driver to allow more/faster floppy access. I only have DF0: with 190MB of hard disk space a second floppy is a little useless.. Thanks for any hint Alan
4900.2	Ugh	VERGA::MACDONALD	Home of Digital Realtime Pubs	`Mon Oct 14 1991 17:07`	7
	Hmmm .. so when you accidently loose your startup-sequence you'll have to restore a 14 MByte .LZH file (assuming you still have room on your hard disk), and then extract out the one file. I think the 9 extras floppies afford a greater measure of convenience. In several years I've never had to do a full disk restoration, only individual files.
4900.3	Not quite	CX3PST::WSC017::A_ANDERSON	CSC32::A_Anderson NSU/VAX DTN 592-4170	`Mon Oct 14 1991 18:30`	20
	I just do a lharc e dh3:DH0_BCK.lzh dh0:s/StartUp-Sequence I have enough disk space to keep all three back up .LZH file on line for DH0:(45MB) DH1:(70MB) and DH2:(20MB). The DH3:(45MB) is the back up disk. But I still need to be able to restore from floppy as a last resort. This includes the 11MB PCDisk for my Bridge board compressed 70%. Lharc has much better compression than MRbackup. Plus I can run it unattended. If I were to loose my .LZH file then I would have to restore it. But saving those large files to floppies is a lot faster since MRBackup is not slowed down doing its compression and it takes less floppies. Which translates into backups done more often.