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- UNBACKUP(PC-DOS) UNBACKUP(PC-DOS)
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- NAME
- unbackup - restore contents of a diskette
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- SYNOPSIS
- unbackup [-osv] file1 ... filen
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- DESCRIPTION
- Unbackup has been designed to allow a user to restore
- files from a DOS diskette which was created using the
- DOS command 'backup'. Unbackup is not particular in
- which order diskettes are restored and it will only
- restore the contents of one diskette at a time.
- Restoring a single diskette at a time is useful in batch
- scripts where a user may interchange diskettes of
- different backup sets by mistake.
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- The meaning of the argument characters are:
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- o over write any existing files with the same name
- (normally this is off)
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- s include subdirectory processing by restoring the
- files to their original directory paths
- (normally this is off)
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- v print out a list of the files being restored
- (normally this is off)
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- file the list of files which to be restored. This may
- contain wild card characters.
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- Unbackup was written to facilitate development of bomb
- proof batch scripts for the restoration of many files
- from many different backup sets. The DOS 'restore'
- command is particular about which diskette is inserted
- from a particular backup set. Unbackup does not complain
- about the order in which it will restore diskettes--the
- command must be reissued for each diskette to restore.
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- EXAMPLES
- To restore the files from a diskette in drive A to drive
- C in the original directory paths with a progress
- report, one would type:
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- unbackup -sv a:*.*
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- To restore the files from a diskette in drive B to the
- current directory on drive C, one would type:
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- unbackup b:*.*
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- LIMITATIONS AND BUGS
- Unbackup will only restore files to the currently
- selected drive. It will create all directory paths
- which are necessary. A file broken across floppies
- will not be properly restored--too bad, so sad.
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- SEE ALSO
- backup(PC-DOS), restore(PC-DOS)
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