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- Restore
- =======
-
- Restore is the other program in the HardBack package, which is
- used to restore backups, either completely, or selectively using a
- window which behaves almost identically to a Filer window. This
- demo version of Restore has had a few minor features removed.
-
- Starting up
- ===========
- This is virtually identical to Backup - double clicking on the
- !Restore icon opens a window urging you to register. Once you
- have read the contents, clicking on Continue will place the Restore
- icon on the iconbar. Clicking on the Restore iconbar icon opens
- the main options window.
-
- Iconbar menu
- ------------
- This menu is the same as the Backup iconbar menu except with an
- extra item, End Restore. This is greyed out unless you are in
- restore selected files mode, when it acts the same as End restore on
- the files display menu.
-
- Options window
- --------------
- Since Restore is mainly controlled by all the choices you made in
- Backup, it has very few options of its own. Those that it does have
- are documented below
-
- 1 Entire backup
- This option restores the whole backup to a specified place. It first
- asks for you to enter disc 1 and then the rest of the discs in
- sequence.
-
- 2 Selected items
- This allows you to choose exactly what you restore and where it
- goes. Firstly, it needs the last disc in the set, and then you are
- prompted to enter any discs that are necessary. More information
- on these two methods is given below.
-
- 3 Source drive
- This is similar to the destination drive in Backup - see that section
- for more information. The entry here should be the same as when
- the file was backed up, although for floppies you can change the
- drive.
-
- 4 Show status display
- This is greyed out because this option is not available in the demo
- version; the status display is always shown.
-
- 5 Cancel
- This closes the window and resets the options to what they were
- before.
-
- 6 OK
- This stores the options and goes onto the next phase, which
- depends on whether Entire backup or Selected items was chosen.
-
- Methods of restoring
- ====================
-
- There are two methods of restoring files which depend on what
- you want to restore.
-
- Entire backup
- -------------
- This method is fairly simple because it simply requests the discs in
- sequence and restores what is held on them to a single directory. It
- only uses the file Backup which is stored on each disc. However
- the downside is that if a disc is corrupt or missing, then Restore
- will not be able to Restore the files on any of the discs after this
- one.
-
- Selected items
- --------------
- This method involves opening a Filer - style window and allows
- you to move up and down directories and drag files and directories
- out to wherever you like. This works by reading the information
- stored in the Keyfile which is stored on the last disc in the set. It
- requests discs only when they are needed to extract files from
- them. This means if any disc bar the last is missing or corrupt you
- can still restore a large percentage of the original data. One minor
- point which makes this less useful to restore the whole backup is
- that it is slightly slower than the Entire backup method. Also if the
- keyfile is corrupt, you cannot restore anything without Entire
- backup.
-
- Restore entire backup:
- ======================
-
- This section documents how Restore behaves when Entire backup
- is selected on the options window.
-
- When OK is clicked, Restore scans the disc in the selected drive.
- If it has a backup in the correct place, then the Restore entire
- backup options window is opened. If it is not a valid backup disc,
- you will be prompted to insert a backup disc 1. When this has been
- done, and Restore is satisfied that it is correct, the window below
- will be opened:
-
- Restore entire backup options window
- ------------------------------------
- This window allows you to set where the backup will be restored
- to, and it also shows when the backup was performed.
-
- 1 Destination
- This shows where the backup will be restored to. You can either
- edit this manually or drag a directory here to set the destination to
- be inside it. If you drag a directory whilst holding down Ctrl, or a
- file, the source will be set as the parent of it.
-
- 2 Backup done on ...
- This shows the date on which the backup was performed. The /1
- suffix shows the disc, which in all cases should be 1.
-
- 3 Directory
- This is probably the best way to set the destination - simply drag
- the directory icon out to a Filer window, and the destination will be
- set to it. You shouldn’t drag it to applications or iconbar icons,
- because they may give strange results like <Wimp$Scrap>.
-
- 4 Cancel
- This closes this window and returns you to the main options
- window.
-
- 5 OK
- This accepts the settings and starts the restore operation.
-
- Status window
- -------------
- Once you have set the destination and clicked on OK, the status
- window appears. This displays what is happening, and remains on
- screen until the backup has finished. Most of this window behaves
- in the same way as the Backup status window.
-
- 1,2 Source, Destination
- These are basically reminders of what you have just set.
-
- 3 Doing disc
- Another reminder, this time giving the number of the disc currently
- in the drive.
-
- 4 Currently doing
- This shows what is currently being restored at the moment.
-
- 5 Messages
- This displays any messages that come from Restore, in a similar
- way to the messages panel in Backup.
-
- 6 Pause
- This is greyed out because this feature is not available in this demo
- version. In the full version it behaves similarly to the pause button
- on Backup’s status window.
-
- 7 Stop
- This will stop the restore operation immediately.
-
- When the restore operation has finished or has been stopped, the
- status window will remain on the screen until you close it. After
- closing it, if you clicking on the iconbar icon again, the main
- options window will appear again.
-
- Restoring selected items
- ========================
-
- This method presents you with a Filer-style window from which
- you can drag files, directories and applications to wherever you
- like. It is designed to be as similar as possible to a Filer window so
- that you should spend hardly any time at all getting used to. The
- menu structure also virtually identical, with a few obvious
- omissions such as Rename.
-
- Having chosen Selected items from the main options window, you
- will be prompted to insert the Keydisc. This is the last disc in the
- original backup set and contains the file named Keyfile. Having
- done this and clicked on OK, you should be presented with a
- window similar to a directory viewer which will only contain one
- item. This is in effect the ‘source’ directory and it is simply here to
- make it easier to drag everything out in one go. If the original
- source was $ then this is named Contents. If there was no source
- because selected files was on it is named Selections, otherwise it is
- given the name of the entry in the source field in Backup.
-
- Double clicking on the solitary icon will open the top directory of
- the backup. In this demo version only one directory display can be
- open at one time, so the previous one will close automatically.
-
- You can now move up and down the directory tree as you wish.
- Remember that because only one window can be open at one time,
- you can only move up directories by either Adjust-clicking the
- Close icon of the window, or clicking Menu and choosing Open
- parent.
-
- You cannot run files or applications directly from this window -
- they have to be dragged to a proper Filer window first. Therefore,
- double clicking on applications will open them, as normally double
- clicking with Shift would, and double clicking on files generates an
- error.
-
- You may have trouble distinguishing between Restore’s window
- and Filer window. The easy way to tell is to click Menu over the
- window and look at the menu title.
-
- To restore files, directories and applications, simply select what
- you want, as with normal Filer windows, and then drag it out to
- wherever you want to put it. The status window will appear while
- the files are being restored (this is documented in the section
- Restore entire backup). While the restore is taking place, all the
- files in the window are greyed out. This is to stop you dragging
- out more files which would start two restore operations at the same
- time and crash Restore.
-
- Clicking Menu over the window brings up a menu which behaves
- identically to the Filer menu. A few options are missing and there
- is an extra option (End restore). This is documented below. Those
- options that are missing or greyed out are either irrelevant or only
- available in the full version.
-
- End restore
- -----------
- This closes the files window and clears the data in it from memory.
- It also reopens the main options window.
-