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What follows are some realistic reasons you may or may not want to use this program.

The cons:

• You can only backup files from one drive per archive and easily restore them. (not impossible but just easier) Important files on other drives are most easily backed up and restored by having separate archives for each drive.
• Desktop directory attributes are saved but are not overwritten when unarchiving over an existing Desktop directory. To recover each directory's extended attributes you will need to rename or delete the existing desktop directory that is being restored and then execute the archive. You can also execute the archive with the "*\" parameter if you want to extract only the desktop directory structure and no other files. example:

  archive.exe *\

  This will unarchive the directory entries only from a backup file called "archive.exe".

• You must boot from a boot disk in most cases when restoring files as there will be a few that will be locked while the partition is active.
• Restoring selected files only, is possible but is command line only for now. We will try to add some examples in the tips and tricks section.
• We have not added the ability to change fonts or colors yet.

The pros:

• Scans your bootdrive so you don't forget any important files.
• Allows you to decide what is backed up and what is discarded.
• Allows you to select other important files to archive for your desktop.
• AutoStart will allow scheduled backups.
• Using the Zip format saves space needed to backup your desktop.
• Using the Zip format gives you the quality assurance that the InfoZip group is world renowned for.
• Rescans your bootdrive and checks if any important files have appeared or disappeared since your last backup.
• Allows you to have a more detailed backup of your desktop and configuration than the standard OS/2 "Archive" feature allows.
• If the backup archive is left in the root directory of the drive it is intended for it is easy to find and execute at recovery time.
• Saves your "other important files" information from your last backup and adds them to the listing for you.
• You can backup other visible drives that have systems on them even though they may not be active. I have another OS/2 system on drive "D" on one machine that is visible when I am booted to "C", for example. I can make backups of either drive from either system.
• You can actually use DTB to backup anything on any drive. Maybe you have a development directory that you want backed up while you make changes to a program. You can always revert back to the programs original condition as it was at the time of the last backup by deleting or renaming its' directory and executing your backup to rebuild the directories and files as they once were.
• Point and click configuration including an easy-to-do AutoStart setup.

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