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FILE2719.TXT
Disk No: 2719
Disk Title: FLEXIBAK Plus
PC-SIG Version: S1.0
Program Title: FLEXIBAK Plus
Author Version: 1.01
Author Registration: $39.95 + $4.00 S&H
Special Requirements: None.
FLEXIBAK PLUS, like its predecessor FLEXIBAK, is a flexible, easy-to-use
hard disk backup system with a logical, simple and unique approach to
the backup problem.
With the conventional backup system, you are required to complete a full
backup approximately once a week with daily incremental backups, placed
on separate disks. If you need to restore from the backup, you must
first restore the full backup and then each of the incremental backups
up to the last backup done. FLEXIBAK Plus, replaces the concept of full
and incremental backups. Instead, you only need to do a full backup
once with all subsequent backups placed on the same backup disks,
providing some long-term speed increases, simpler file restoration, and
an improved backup management capability.
Some outstanding features provided by FLEXIBAK PLUS:
~ Selective backups allow you to specify, globally and by directory,
which file groups should be included or excluded from the backup
~ Incremental backups are placed on the same disks as the full backup
~ The file management system keeps track of what has been backed up, and
informs you if any files are missing from your hard disk since the last
backup, allowing you to recover accidentally deleted files
~ File compression is included as well as the ability to handle up to 20
hard disk drives
~ The alarm system warns you that you have forgotten to do a backup for
a specified number of days
PC-SIG
1030D East Duane Avenue
Sunnyvale Ca. 94086
(408) 730-9291
(c) Copyright 1989 PC-SIG, Inc.
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║ Installation: ║
║ ║
║ Installation is a very straightforward process. All you need ║
║ to do is insert the disk on which FLEXIBAK Plus is located into ║
║ the drive, select that drive as the current drive by typing "A:" ║
║ or "B:" (depending on the drive in which the disk is inserted) ║
║ at the DOS prompt. Now type "INSTALL" and press <ENTER> and then ║
║ follow the instructions. Alternatively, if you acquired your copy ║
║ of FLEXIBAK Plus by downloading it from a BBS or you prefer to ║
║ manually install it, just create a directory on your hard disk ║
║ and copy all the files to that directory. ║
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║ To print all documentation files, type: COPY *.DOC PRN (press Enter)║
║ ║
║ (c) COPYRIGHT 1991, PC-SIG INC. ║
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HISTORY.DOC
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Release Date | Version | Details
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19/05/91 | 1.00 | Initial release
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21/05/91 | 1.01 | Bug fix: File Specs not retained if no files
| | backed up in that directory.
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INSTALL.DOC
Installation
Installation is a very straightforward process. All you need
to do is insert the disk on which FLEXIBAK Plus is located into
the drive, select that drive as the current drive by typing "A:"
or "B:" (depending on the drive in which the disk is inserted)
at the DOS prompt. Now type "INSTALL" and press <ENTER> and then
follow the instructions. Alternatively, if you acquired your copy
of FLEXIBAK Plus by downloading it from a BBS or you prefer to
manually install it, just create a directory on your hard disk
and copy all the files to that directory.
Setting The Alarm
FLEXIBAK Plus has a warning alarm feature that warns you if
you haven't taken a backup recently. To enable this, you should
place the following lines in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file in an
appropriate place. (If you are not sure about the function of the
AUTOEXEC.BAT file or how to alter it, please consult your MS-DOS
reference manual).
x:
CD \FLEXPLUS
FLEXPLUS /A=y
C:
Where 'x' is the hard disk drive where you have installed
FLEXIBAK Plus - if other than drive C - and 'y' is the number of
days after which you wish the alarm to sound.
If you have done this correctly, every time you boot your
computer FLEXIBAK Plus will check to see how long it has been
since the last backup was taken and if it is longer ago than the
specified threshold - 'y' in the above example - an alarm will
be sounded giving you the opportunity to take a backup.
Command Line Parameters
If you are running on a machine with a particularly low
amount of free memory or a particularly high number of files, you
may have trouble getting started with FLEXIBAK Plus as it will
abort with an exception message saying that it has either run out
of memory, file space or directory space. You can override the
initial memory allocation settings of FLEXIBAK Plus by use of
some command line options which can later be set permanently by
using the General Setup option of the Setup menu. To override the
number of files (the default is 4000) that space is allocated
for, use the "/F" command line option and to override the number
of directories (the default is 300), use the "/D" command line
option. For example, if you have a particularly large hard disk,
you might use a command like this:
FLEXPLUS /F=5000 /D=500
This would tell FLEXIBAK Plus to allocate space for 5000
files and 500 directories.
Directory of PC-SIG Library Disk #2719
Volume in drive A has no label
Directory of A:\
FLEXPLUS EXE 151332 5-21-91 9:27p
FPDIR EXE 17730 5-21-91 9:27p
FPREST EXE 23620 5-21-91 9:27p
INSTALL EXE 32496 5-21-91 9:27p
REGISTER DOC 1956 5-21-91 9:27p
INSTALL DOC 2453 5-21-91 9:27p
HISTORY DOC 458 5-21-91 9:27p
READ ME 202 5-21-91 9:27p
VENDOR DOC 6599 5-21-91 9:27p
FLEXPLUS DOC 41127 5-26-91 12:39p
GO BAT 28 10-04-90 5:21a
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