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- RESTORE
-
- The RESTORE external command copies one or more files from diskettes to a
- hard disk. The files on the diskettes must have been placed there by the
- compantion command to RESTORE, BACKUP.
-
- RESTORE d1: [d2][pathname][filename[.ext]][/S][/P]
- or
- RESTORE d1: [d2][pathname][filename[.ext]][/S][/P][/M][/N]
- [/option:date or time][DOS 3.3]
- \_/ \__________________________/ where option is A, B, E or L.
- \source \destination/
-
- d1: is the source diskette drive (usually A:).
-
- d2: is the letter of the destination hard disk you are restoring to (usually
- C:).
-
- pathname is the destination directory name to restore the files to. If no
- pathname is specified, only files in the current directory are restored.
-
- filename[.ext] is the name of the file or files to restore. To restore all
- files, don't give any filename or use *.*.
-
-
- /S causes directories, subdirectories and files to be restored.
-
- /P tells DOS to prompt before restoring a file modified since being backed
- up or which is read only.
-
- /M will cause RESTORE to restore only files modified after being backed up.
-
- /N will cause RESTORE to restore only files that do NOT exist on the
- destination drive.
-
- /A:date will cause RESTORE to restore only files modified on or after the
- specified date. The date format is described in the DATE command topic.
-
- /B:date will cause RESTORE to restore only files modified on or before the
- specified date. The date format is described in the DATE command topic.
-
- /E:time will cause RESTORE to restore only files modified on or before
- (earlier than) the specified time.
-
- /L:time will cause RESTORE to restore only files modified on or after
- (later than) the specified time.
-
- RESTORE should not be run when an APPEND path is defined. Turn APPEND off
- (APPEND ;) first. Don't use RESTORE on ASSIGNed, JOINed, or SUBSTed drive
- letters.