home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
The Datafile PD-CD 5
/
DATAFILE_PDCD5.iso
/
utilities
/
h
/
hardback
/
!Backup
/
Docs
/
Backup
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1996-10-26
|
17KB
|
422 lines
HardBack in use
===============
This section gives an in-depth guide to the features present in
Backup and Restore.
Backup
======
Basic overview
--------------
When you first load HardBack, an icon is displayed on the iconbar.
Clicking on this icon will bring up the options window allowing
you to set various options about the backup, and save and load
script files. Once these have been set, a click on Start starts the
backup operation proper. This opens the status window which tells
you how the backup is progressing. At certain times dialogue
boxes may appear either asking to make choices, or to do
something (such as insert a new disc) and click Continue. Once
the backup has finish, a short message will be displayed at the
bottom of the status window. When this has happened, you can
start another backup operation by closing the status window and
clicking on the iconbar icon, which will display the options
window once again.
Starting up
-----------
To start up Backup, double click on the !Backup icon in a directory
display. A large window will appear which urges you to register
with the author (see Appendix A for details). After you have read
the text in this window, click on Continue to load Backup. After a
short pause the icon will appear on the iconbar with the word
‘Ready’ underneath it. This signals that Backup is waiting for you
to tell it to do something. If you click Menu over the iconbar icon,
a short menu will appear.
Info
----
This opens a window giving information about the Backup
program.
It also displays the version and serial numbers, which should be
quoted in all correspondence with the author. The ‘This program is
Shareware’ icon is actually a button, which, when clicked on,
opens a text file giving details on how to register. It is essentially
the same as Appendix A in this manual.
Quit
----
This exits the Backup program and removes it from memory. You
will be asked if you really want to quit if there is a backup in
progress.
If you click on the iconbar icon the Options window will appear.
Options window
==============
This window permits you to change a large number of factors
which affect what the backup does and how it works.
1 Load target
Drag a script file here to load it into HardBack. If Shift is held
down, then any files in the Selected and Ignored windows will be
cleared before the script file is loaded, otherwise the items
currently there will remain and the selected/ignored parts of the
two files will merge.
2 Scrolling section (pane)
This section contains the options themselves and can be scrolled by
using 3. It is officially called a pane.
3 Scroll bar
Use this to scroll the scrolling section, as you would any other Risc
OS window.
4 Reset
This button resets the options to what they were when they were
last stored - when Start or Update was clicked, or when a script file
was loaded or saved. Note that Selected and Ignored files, plus the
contents of the ‘Only file of type:’ list are stored each time a new
entry is added, removed, selected or deselected, and so these values
will not change.
5 Update
This updates the copy of the options stored within the program to
that shown in the options window.
6 Cancel
This is the same as reset, but it also closes the options window.
7 Start
This is the same as update, but it also starts the backup operation
described by the options.
Scrolling options
-----------------
This is the main part of the options window, which contains the
icons which allow you to set the criteria by which the backup is
carried out. It is divided into several parts:
Source/Destination
1 Source box
Dragging a file or directory here will fill in the source icon with its
name. Dragging with Ctrl held down will enter the name of its
parent into the source icon.
2 Source icon
This icon allows you to type in and edit directly the name of the
source directory or file - i.e. the name of the directory or file to
copy files from onto floppy disc.
3 Destination icon
This icon allows you to enter and edit the name of the destination
drive and directory - i.e the drive and directory to back up the
source onto. Currently, this must include a drive specifier (e.g :0)
rather than a disc specifier (e.g :FredsDisc). However it can
contain any number of directories - if these are not present on the
disc they will be created. It must mention a filing system, which
must be controlled by FileCore. This includes most major filing
systems such as SCSI, ADFS, IDE, RAMFS, but not networks,
ArcFS or DeviceFS.
For example: scsi::5.$.Backups.WorkAug95
4 Destination menu icon
This icon opens a pop-up menu containing a selection of possible
destinations. It auto-senses how many ADFS floppies and SCSI
drives are connected and puts only valid items onto the menu.
Options
-------
This region permits you to set some of the major, but non-
compulsory options.
1 Selected files
This allows you to choose particular files and directories to
backup. They needn’t be in the same directory or even on the same
drive or filing system. When this is selected, incremental backups
are disabled and so 4, 5, 6, and 9 are disabled. Click on Select...
to display a window into which you can drag particular files.
When selected files is used, the source name is not necessary.
However, it is still stored in the backup file as the ‘parent’ of all the
files, as if they all came from the same directory, and it is used as
the default directory when you are restoring the whole backup. If
no name is present, Backup.Selections will be used instead.
2 Ignored files
This allows you to opt to ignore certain files and directories that
you don’t want to be backed up. The files to ignore can be
anywhere within the directory structure as long as a parent is
specified to be backed up; if it is not specified then clearly nothing
will happen. If a file or directory is present in both the Selected
and Ignored windows then it will be ignored.
3 Select.../Ignore...
Clicking either of these buttons brings up a window to which you
can drag files and directories to respectively choose to backup or
not to backup.
You can select particular items in the same way you would do in a
Filer window, and clicking Menu over the window brings up a
menu giving you options to remove files or directories from the
window.
4 Incremental
This option allows you to backup files that have changed since a
certain date. It does not apply to directories; all directories are
scanned, but their contents will not be backed up if it is older than
the date specified. Files which are untyped - i.e have load/
execution addresses rather than a filetype and date stamp will
always be backed up.
5 Last backup
This option, when Incremental is switched on, will read the date of
the last backup from the BackupDate file stored in the source
directory, and back up all file created after the date held within it.
If a BackupDate file is not present in the source then an error will
be given when you try to start the backup. You can check the date
held in a BackupDate file by loading it into a text editor such as
Zap or Edit. It is stored in a human-readable form at the end of the
file.
6 On/at
This allows you to specify a date and, if necessary, a time, directly
by typing it into the icons. The date should go in the top icon in the
form day/month/year, and the time in the bottom as either
hours:minutes or hours:minutes:seconds. The year can either be as
four digits (1998) or as two (98). If it is as two, then it is assumed
to be in the 20th century. Alternatively, dragging a file or directory
will set the date and time to when it was last saved.
7 Only files of type ...
This option allows you to choose to only backup files of specified
filetypes, including Impression documents stored as applications.
The list which contains those filetypes you do want to backup can
be added to by clicking on the pop-up menu icon to the right (Ç)
8 Only files... pop-up menu
Clicking on this icon opens the menu which contains a list of those
filetypes you want