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- Installation
-
- Installation is straightforward. Simply insert the disk containing
- FLEXIBAK Plus into a drive, then select the current drive by typing
- "A:" or "B:", as appropriate, and press <ENTER>. Now, type "INSTALL",
- press <ENTER> and follow the instructions.
-
- You are asked to specify a source drive and destination directory,
- which default to "A" and "C:\FLEXPLUS", respectively. Alternatively,
- if you acquired your copy of FLEXIBAK Plus from a BBS or prefer to
- manually install it, just create a directory on your hard disk and
- copy all FLEXIBAK Plus files to that directory.
-
-
- Setting The Alarm
-
- FLEXIBAK Plus has an alarm feature that warns you if you haven't taken
- a backup recently. To enable this, you must place the following lines
- in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file (generally found in the Root directory of
- your hard disk) in an appropriate place. (If you are unsure about the
- function of the AUTOEXEC.BAT file or how to alter it, please consult
- your MS-DOS reference manual).
-
- x:
- CD \FLEXPLUS
- FLEXPLUS /A=y
- C:
-
- Where "x" is the hard disk drive where you installed FLEXIBAK Plus --
- if other than drive C -- and "y" is the number of days after which you
- want the alarm to sound. Many users set "y" to "7" for a weekly
- backup; others do it more frequently -- even once each day. Only you
- can determine how often to backup programs and data in your
- circumstances, based upon how much work you can afford to lose when
- the inevitable happens someday and files become lost or damaged.
-
- After you have done this, every time you boot your computer FLEXIBAK
- Plus will determine if the time since the last backup is longer ago
- than the specified threshold - "y" in the above example. If so, an
- alarm will sound to remind you to take a backup.
-
-
- Command Line Parameters
-
- If you are running on a machine with a particularly low amount of free
- memory or a particularly high number of files, you may have trouble
- getting started with FLEXIBAK Plus, as it will abort with an exception
- message saying that it has run out of memory, file space or directory
- space.
-
- If this occurs, override the initial memory allocation settings of
- FLEXIBAK Plus with command line options. (These can later be set
- permanently with the General Setup option of the Setup menu.) To
- override the number of default number of files (4000), use the "/F"
- command line option. To override the default number of directories
- (300), use the "/D" command line option. For example, if you have a
- particularly large hard disk, you might use a command like this:
-
- FLEXPLUS /F=5000 /D=500
-
- This example tells FLEXIBAK Plus to allocate space for 5000 files and
- 500 directories. If you are short of memory (FLEXIBAK Plus requires
- about 520K FREE memory in order to run with its default setting of
- 4000 files), you should try reducing the number of files by using a
- command such as:
-
- FLEXPLUS /F=2000
-
- Make sure that the number of files you specify is at least 100 greater
- than the number of files on your drive C, and FLEXIBAK Plus should run
- correctly.
-
- There is one more command line parameter -- "/N". If you use this
- parameter the FIRST time that FLEXIBAK Plus is run, drive C will not
- automatically be used as the logged-in drive. Use this parameter if
- you have too many files on drive C for FLEXIBAK Plus to handle as one
- backup drive or you only want to backup selected directories or files.
-