DeskTop Backup Software (DTB)
DeskTop Backup is a simple tool that works with InfoZip's Zip (v2.2) and Unzipsfx to build a self-extracting zipfile containing your essential desktop and other configuration information.
There are no great and deep mysteries concerning it's use and one can do the same work from the command line along with the InfoZip utilitities. DeskTop Backup merely makes it a bit more automated and will help you decide what files may be important to archive.
In general, your procedure with DeskTop Backup will be:
- Select a drive (your bootdrive) to archive information from
- Select a name (fully qualified name is required) for the archive
- Locate Zip.exe (must be version 2.2) and Unzipsfx.exe. DeskTop Backup will locate these two files automatically if possible
- Have DeskTop Backup make suggestions as to what files are available on the chosen drive that may be important in relation to your setup or desktop
- Delete any files from the suggested listing that you will not require in your archive
- Select any other files that you may wish to archive on the selected drive
- Press the "Build" button and let it work
To recover your desktop or configuation files you need only:
- Boot from a boot disk to the drive you are recovering
- Execute the backup archive on the root of the drive you are recovering
- Reboot normally to the drive you are recovering
DeskTop Backup will save all of your backup information when a backup is performed or you can save several distinctive backup setups to be performed on call or automatically. It will also still scan the chosen drive for existence of the files listed when a setup is loaded just in case there have been changes since the last running. (new configuration files may have appeared or possibly some are missing since the last run)
"AutoStart" backups are simple point and click setups that update your situation automatically with just a mouse click. You can also save multiple archive setups and recall them at will as well as setting the scheduler to run automatically at startup to archive by "days between archives" or "day of the week".
If you are using Warp4 in combination with fp10 and Object Rexx, please download the standard zip archive. The archives are approximately 400k.
Online help of DeskTop Backup Software (DTB):
- DTB - DeskTop Backup
- Information on Controls
- Settings and the setup notebook
- Desktop recovery options
- Pros and cons
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