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- FORMAT
-
- The format of the dRestore command is
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- [d:][path]DRESTORE d: [d:][path]filename[.ext] [options]
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- where
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- [d:][path]
- before DRESTORE specifies the drive and path that
- contain the dRestore program.
-
- d:
- specifies the drive that contains the backed up files
- (source).
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- [d:][path]filename[.ext]
- specifies the file(s) you want to restore and where you
- want to restore them (target). Global file name
- characters are allowed in the file name, and cause all of
- the files matching the file name to be restored. The files
- must be restored to the same directory they were in when
- Diskpack copied them.
-
- [options]
- specifies the optional parameters described below.
-
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- OPTIONS
-
- The following options can appear in the dRestore command.
-
- /?
- Display help.
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- /1
- Do not prompt to insert the first backup disk.
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- /B
- Beep when prompted to insert a disk.
-
- /D
- Display file names only. This operation takes as long as
- restoring files, since dRestore must uncompress the data
- on the backup disks to obtain the file names. If you
- created a catalog file when backing up, it's faster to
- display its contents with the DOS TYPE command.
-
- type diskpack.cat
-
- /I
- Display registration information (unregistered version
- only).
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- /P1
- Display a (y/n)? prompt before restoring a file if it is
- hidden or has been changed since it was last backed up.
- You can choose to restore the file or not.
-
- /P2
- Display a (y/n)? prompt before restoring each file. You
- can choose to restore the file or not.
-
- /R
- Restore files. If /R is omitted, dRestore will compare the
- files on the backup disks with the target disk- not
- restore them.
-
- /S
- Restore subdirectory files in addition to the files in the
- specified or current directory.
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- /V
- Display a verbose description of the restore process.
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- NOTES
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- ⁿ Press Ctrl-Break to stop dRestore.
-
- ⁿ The files being restored must have been placed on the
- source with Diskpack.
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- ⁿ dRestore isn't as fast as Diskpack. Diskpack's
- compression method was developed to be as fast as
- possible even though some of the techniques used to
- increase compression speed actually decrease the speed of
- uncompression. This is a good tradeoff since Diskpack is
- used more frequently than dRestore.
-
- ⁿ You don't have to start with disk 1 when restoring files.
- If you want to restore a single file from a set of backups,
- start with the backup disk that contains the file (the
- catalog lists each file and its disk number). If dRestore
- doesn't find the file, try starting with the previous disk.
-
- ⁿ Before formatting your hard disk, you should back it up
- completely, compare the backup disks with your hard disk
- to be sure you have a good copy, and back it up again on
- another set of disks.
-
- ⁿ dRestore will automatically create directories on the
- target disk if they don't already exist.
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- EXAMPLES
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- The following example compares the files on the backup disks
- in drive A with the files on drive C. The files are not
- restored.
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- drestore a: c:\*.*/s
-
- The following example restores all files on the backup disks
- from drive A to drive C.
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- drestore a: c:\*.*/s/r
-
- The following example restores the file FILE.TXT from drive
- A to drive C. A verbose description of the restore process
- is displayed.
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- drestore a: c:file.txt/r/v
-
- The following example restores all files from drive A that
- were backed up from the current directory and prompts the
- user before restoring each file.
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- drestore a: *.*/p2/r
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- The following example restores all files from drive A with
- the extension WK1 that were backed up from the directory
- \123 and all subdirectories of \123.
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- drestore a: \123\*.wk1/s/r
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