In a message of 12-15-1900, DAVE EMORY wrote re: WIN95 AND OS/2 BACKUP
DE> JT> Another option is that I could use my OS/2 backup software to backup
DE>  JT> the Win95 partition.  I realize that the VFAT long filenames would 
e
DE>  JT> lost, but is this more than just an inconvenience?  WIll the system 
be
DE>  JT> able to boot and run using the 8.3 names instead of the longname
DE>  JT> pointers?  At least well enough for me to get it up and running and
DE>  JT> then restore the long names manually?
DE>  There's a W95 utility (freeware, I think) that will scan the
DE> VFAT drive(s) and create a batch file that will restore them
DE> when you run it.  Just back up that along with the rest of the
DE> files.  Look for something like LFN in the utility file name.
That would be handy.
JT> It also occurs to me that I could put the Win95 stuff in a Drivespace
JT> compressed volume and simply backup/restore the compressed volume file
JT> from OS/2.  If I then boot from my Win95 recovery diskettes, I should
JT> be able to access the files on the compressed drive long names and
JT> all, right?
DE>  Isn't there still some uncompressed stuff to be careful of
DE> in the "real" W95 partition?
Yes, but AFAIK they're all in standard 8.3 format so my OS/2 backup program 
ought to pick them up fine.
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