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KwikBackUp
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© 1988 by Fridtjof Siebert
Nobileweg 67
D-7000 Stuttgart 40
Tel.: (0)711/822509
---- What is it? ----
KwikBackUp
is a fast harddisk-backup-program. It makes use of the
archive-flag. It can be easily used from Workbench.
KwikBackUp
writes the data track by track onto the floppy disks. Long
files are written on several disks. While reloading the backup,
KwikBackUp
doesn't break if any read-error occurs, but it continues to
read all files that haven't been destroyed by that error. It is even
possible, that a whole disk is missing. Every file is stored with its
complete path. So it will surely be placed where it has been while
creating the backup. The order in which the disks are inserted is
checked while creating and while reloading the backup.
In addition to the contents of the files, its comments and protection
flags are also saved.
---- How to start KwikbackUp: ----
Just doubleclick its icon or type its name into your CLI-window.
---- How to use Kwikbackup: ----
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| ============= ____| \ ______________ |
| || || | \ | | |o| |
| || ___|___ || | BackUp > | | BackUp | | |
| || |--I | || | / | | DF0: | | |
| || | ¯¯¯|¯¯¯ || ¯¯¯¯| / | |________| | |
| || | | || /| |/ | _______ | |
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| ============= / | | || | | | |
| _______________ < Restore| ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ |
| | DH0: | \ | |
| ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ \ |¯¯¯¯ |
| \| |
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| ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- |
| | Start | | Set Archs | | Regard Archs | | Save All | |
| ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- |
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The following gadgets can be selected:
The Window's Closegadget:
Quit
KwikBackUp
.
Disk-gadget:
You can select the floppy disk drive number when you're pressing
this gadget several times. You're also allowed to use a 5.25"
drive with 40 tracks.
Harddisk-gadget:
The string-gadget below the harddisk contains the name of the
harddisk. You can also create a backup of a subdirectory or of the
ramdisk etc. by just typing their correct path.
BackUp-arrow:
When this gadget is selected (when it is orange), a backup will be
created when pressing 'Start'.
Restore-arrow:
When this gadget is selected (when its color is orange),
KwikBackUp
will start restoring the backup when you're pressing
'Start'. BackUp and Restore mutually exclude each other.
Set Archives:
When this gadget is selected, the archive-flag of every saved file
will be set while creating a backup.
Regard Archives:
When this is selected and you're creating a backup, there are only
those files saved, whose archive-flag is clear, that is those that
have been changed since the last backup with the option 'set
archives'. When you restore this backup, you should first restore
that created with 'set archives'.
Save All:
`Save All' is the opposite to `Regard Archives'. It doesn't care
about the contents of the archive flag and creates a complete
backup of your harddisk.
Start:
Starts creating or restoring the backup. This gadget turns into an
'ABORT' gadget while
KwikBackUp
is creating the backup. You are
able to abort the backup when you're pressing this gadget.
BackUp:
While your creating a backup, you're told to insert the destination
disk.
KwikBackUp
writes the string 'BkUp' onto the disks as their
identifier, so if you insert them later, Workbench will name them
DFx:BkUp. This way, you can easily distinguish backup-disks from normal
and unformatted disks.
It's number and an identifier for the backup is written onto each
disks, so you cannot mix up two backups and create a choas on your
harddisk when your reloading the mixture.
If you accidentally insert a disk that belongs to the currently created
backup, you'll be suggested to insert a new disk.
If any error occures,
KwikBackUp
displays a Requester with 3 gadgets
for your answer:
- Retry: Retries what KwikBackUp did last and what created the error.
- Ignore: Continues the backup, without thinking about the error.
This can be used to continue the backup when you don't mind
if there's one file destroyed.
- Cancel: Cancels the backup.
While you're creating the backup, the current path and filename are
displayed at the bottom of the
KwikBackUp
-window.
Restore:
While you're restoring a backup, all files are written back onto your
harddisk. The harddisk will be recreated exactly the way it has been
before. When you insert the disks, their order and whether they belong
to the same backup will be checked. If you're backup disks are no more
in order and you have forgotten to write the disk's numbers onto the
disk, you can just insert each disk after the other. The disks' numbers
will be displayed then.
If any error occures, the same requester that occured while creating
the backup will be displayed. Retry and Cancel have the same meaning
described above. Ignore will cancel the currently loaded file and
searches for the next file on the source disk. When there some further
files found, they will be loaded.
---- Copyright: ----
KwikBackUp
is NOI in the Public-Domain, it is ShareWare. Who uses
KwikBackUp
for private purposes, is suggested to sand me a donation of
10 to 20 dollars (or 10 to 20 german Marks, then I won't have to
exchange it). Any commercial use of KwikBackUp needs a written
permission by the author (that's me).
Politicians have to pay $ 80 to be allowed to use
KwikBackUp
.
---- Bugs: ----
I actually do not know any bugs and I haven't been reported any, but
there are some guys who paid the shareware-fee and who really liked
KwikBackUp
.
The only thing that may cause problems is that empty directories are
currently not saved. I don't have any empty directories on my harddisk
(a ".info"-file is enough to make a directory non-empty) and I don't
think that many people will have empty directories, so this won't cause
much trouble.
Anybody who encounters any errors is supposed to report them to me.
--- Fridtjof.