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- SNOREST COMMAND
-
- Purpose:Restores all files from a number of
- floppy disks to a hard disk or restores a
- RAM disk (such as VDISK) from a file on
- hard disk or floppy disk.
-
- Format: [d:][path]SNOREST d: d: [/S][/Q]
-
- Type: External
-
- Remarks:Specify the parameters:
-
- [d:][path] before SNOREST to specify the
- drive and path that contains the SNOREST
- command file.
-
- d: to specify the drive which contains
- the information stored by SNOBACK which
- you wish to restore (source). If the /S
- switch is used, this parameter specifies
- the lower of two drives to be used for
- the source.
-
- d: to specify the drive that will receive
- the information to be restored
- (destination). ALL INFORMATION WHICH IS
- PRESENTLY STORED ON THIS DRIVE WILL BE
- ERASED!
-
- /S to cause the source drive to be
- swapped between the drive specified above
- and the next higher drive. This allows
- you to place a disk in the unused drive
- while the routine is reading information
- from the other drive. This switch also
- allows you to answer the "mount" prompt
- before it is given (type-ahead).
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- SNOREST COMMAND (page 2)
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- /Q to cause all prompts which require
- your response to be bypassed (quiet).
- This allows the SNOREST command to be
- placed in a batch file for automatic
- restoration of RAM disks.
-
- Notes: SNOREST restores up all used allocation
- units from the source disk. All files in
- all directories of the disk will be
- restored. No individual files may be
- named, since SNOREST obtains its speed by
- not accessing each directory seperately.
-
- SNOREST will read the file on the source
- disk called SBACKUP.###, where ### is the
- number (beginning with 001) of the disk.
- If a disk with the wrong numbered file is
- mounted, an error message will be given.
-
- If you are restoring a RAM disk, the
- source may of course be a hard disk. In
- this case, the SBACKUP.### file in the
- current directory of the hard disk will
- be used.
-
- The backup copy of the disk includes
- information used by DOS to indicate the
- size and formatting parameters of the
- disk. This means that when restoring the
- information, care must be taken to insure
- that the disk to receive the restored
- copy MUST be formatted exactly as it was
- when SNOBACK was used to backup the
- information. Also, the partition size of
- a hard disk (as created by FDISK) must be
- the same.
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- SNOREST COMMAND (page 3)
-
- Example:The following example restores all files
- from the floppy disks in drive A to the
- fixed disk in drive C:
-
- A>snorest a: c:
-
- If your system had two diskette drives,
- you would use the following command:
-
- A>snorest a: c:/s
-
- The following example restores all files
- to a RAM disk configured as drive D from
- the file SBACKUP.001 on the current
- directory of the fixed disk in drive C.
- The /q switch is used to suppress the
- mount messages:
-
- A>snorest c: d:/q
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