Re: System Backup / Restore
- Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> Feb 07, 2006
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Pete Lomax wrote: > > On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 12:28:11 -0800, "Ricardo M. Forno" > <guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote: > > >Hi all. > > > >I was looking in the Web for a program capable to backup Windows system files > >to later eventually restore them in case of malfunction. > > > >I found that all of these programs only backup system.dat and user.dat, > >that is, the Registry, plus some other small bits of information such as > >autoexec.bat, config.sys, etc. > > > >I have some questions about this, and hope some of you can answer them: > > > >1) Isn't also necessary to backup the files under \windows\system and its > >subdirectories, in order to make an effective backup? Because some > >software installation may replace .DLLs with newer, bad ones. > >I think also files under the \windows directory (but not subdirectories > >other than 'system') should be backuped. > > There is a builtin function called sfc (system file checker) which can > do part of this, at least on win98. It verifies the most critical > system files and restores them from the installation CD. > > > >2) Is there an Euphoria program able to perform this task? I found none in > >The Archive. > > > >3) Is somebody aware of a program that can backup a directory in an > >incremental way? Because one might notice a malfuntion not immediately after > >a new software installation, but later, AFTER a backup was made, > >destroying the old, good backup; and backuping everything each time > >is dispendious. > There is some backup handling in Edita, though I am really talking > about the edita.edb and restore side rather than the make backup side. > It happily copes with multiple copies of each file. > > I might be interested in assisting with a program, run on a periodic > basis, which maintains a full backup of specified files by checking > them by date/time to see if they have been altered, and a gives > warnings/allows semi-automated restoration. Let me know if you > are interested. (I am rather busy on other stuff though.) > > Regards, > Pete > PS my vision of such a program would be full GUI if run via exw, plain > DOS text mode if run via ex.exe (as needed in emergencies). > > Hello Pete and Ricardo, I would think it would be faily simple to write a back up program in DOS. Using
x = dir(st)--the system dir or any other Pertinent dirs system("copy [x][1]") </euphoria>
You could make it as elaborate as you wanted.
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