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Date:	Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:07:50 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Backup to hard drive not allowed ?

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Peter Skye wrote:
>
> It would be a lot easier to manually administer
> the backup archive breakpoints if I could say:
>
> any root directory < 'D' goes into arc1.zip
> 'D' =< 'L' goes into arc2.zip
> 'L' =< 'LM' goes into arc3.zip
> 'LM' =< 'R' goes into arc4.zip
> etc.
>
> I think the old DOS Fastback allowed you to
> do that, and maybe Back Again/2000 does
> too -- I'll go check the documentation.

BA/2000 doesn't have a "range" selection in its documentation. For fun
I checked the old Fastback and I was wrong, it doesn't either. I don't
know where I remember a "range" selection from -- I even checked LapLink
but it doesn't have one.

Without a "range" selection I'm pretty much stuck. I have several
thousand directories on my main machine and I'm not going to
individually specify where each one goes. The root directory has about
120 directories, and one of those directories holds half the drive's
files and has about 550 subdirectories in it. So that's almost 700
directories I would have to manually administer if I wanted to segment
the drive's backup using an "Include/Exclude" capability.

- Peter

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