In a message to John Thompson, Ben Ritchey wrote re: Backup

JT> In any case, I use InfoZip's ZIP.EXE to back
JT> up my wife's laptop and have used UNZIP.EXE to restore to a bare
JT> HD on that machine and it worked fine.
 
BR> You wouldn't have the syntax/switches handy? Grabbed Infozip this Pm.

I use:

zip -9rS d:\backup c:\* -x c:\os2\system\SWAPPER.DAT

This recursively backs up everything on the C: drive to 
d:\backup.zip (on an external ZIP drive) using maximum
compression, except for the swap file, which is ignored.  To
restore simply "unzip d:\backup" from C:\


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