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- Installation
-
- Installation is a very straightforward process. All you need
- to do is insert the disk on which FLEXIBAK Plus is located into
- the drive, select that drive as the current drive by typing "A:"
- or "B:" (depending on the drive in which the disk is inserted)
- at the DOS prompt. Now type "INSTALL" and press <ENTER> and then
- follow the instructions. Alternatively, if you acquired your copy
- of FLEXIBAK Plus by downloading it from a BBS or you prefer to
- manually install it, just create a directory on your hard disk
- and copy all the files to that directory.
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- Setting The Alarm
-
- FLEXIBAK Plus has a warning alarm feature that warns you if
- you haven't taken a backup recently. To enable this, you should
- place the following lines in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file in an
- appropriate place. (If you are not sure 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 have installed
- FLEXIBAK Plus - if other than drive C - and 'y' is the number of
- days after which you wish the alarm to sound.
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- If you have done this correctly, every time you boot your
- computer FLEXIBAK Plus will check to see how long it has been
- since the last backup was taken and if it is longer ago than the
- specified threshold - 'y' in the above example - an alarm will
- be sounded giving you the opportunity to take a backup.
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- Command Line Parameters
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- 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 either run out
- of memory, file space or directory space. You can override the
- initial memory allocation settings of FLEXIBAK Plus by use of
- some command line options which can later be set permanently by
- using the General Setup option of the Setup menu. To override the
- number of files (the default is 4000) that space is allocated
- for, use the "/F" command line option and to override the number
- of directories (the default is 300), use the "/D" command line
- option. For example, if you have a particularly large hard disk,
- you might use a command like this:
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- FLEXPLUS /F=5000 /D=500
-
- This would tell FLEXIBAK Plus to allocate space for 5000
- files and 500 directories.
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