-=> Quoting Jon Filina to All <=-
 JF> Before coming up on Warp (version 3), I was using Central Point
 JF> Backup (DOS version 7.1) to backup my 850 meg drive to a SyQuest EZ135
 JF> (2 disks). 
 JF> I now find out that OS/2 does not support removeable drives.  :-(
I'm using a Zip Drive and OS/2 supports it just fine.  I'm using FAT on
the zip disks, but I understand that there's an update that allows HPFS
on removable media.
 JF> Since I do not really want to invest in another backup medium, I will
 JF> have to Dual Boot to DOS and do the backup there.
 JF> EABackup appears to be the program to use to backup the EA DATA.SF
 JF> file. I think CPBackup 7.1 will work, but would like to know if anyone
 JF> knows for sure. 
 JF> If you are backing up from DOS to a removeable drive, what
 JF> program are you using?
I used to backup by dual booting into DOS, then booting OS/2 off
a floppy, running EABACKUP, booting back into DOS, and then using
Norton's backup to backup the drives. To restore I would restore
everything back into DOS, boot OS/2 off the service disks, use
EARESTORE (the other part of EABACKUP) to restore the EA's, and then
I'd dual boot into OS/2.
Since I'm using HPFS now I can't use this procedure.  Now I use LH32
to compress each drive and then use the OS/2 backup command to backup
these archives to Zip Disks.  It's a bit of a hassel and you loose the
ability to easily select files to backup or not (for example, I now
backup my 50 meg swapper.dat file) -- but it's free.
 JF> I guess I should also ask about using the PCTools 7.1 defragger,
 JF> COMPRESS.  Is anyone using this from a DOS Dual Boot session?
Can't comment on that -- I used Microsoft's Defrag and Norton's speed
disk with no problems.  I have an HPFS defragged that came with
FM2 Utilities, but haven't used it since HPFS resists fragmentation.
-- Mark C.
... What if there were no hypothetical situations?
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