Subj : Mirror or backup progs??
To   : Mike Powell
From : Herbert Rosenau
Date : Sun Apr 17 2005 05:05 pm

Am 16.04.05 15:07 schrieb Mike Powell

 MP> After migrating my BBS over to the OS/2 machine, I have noticed
 MP> that the primary HD sounds like its days are numbered.  It is
 MP> making some racket that it should not.

 MP> So, I would like to move the system to another drive.  Basically,
 MP> the PC has two physical drives, one split into boot mgr, C:, and
 MP> E:, and the other drive is D:.  I want to move D: and E: to a new
 MP> drive, and then make the second (D:) the primary, and move C: to
 MP> it.

xcopy x:\* y:\ /H /O /T /S /E /R /V
will copy the whole content of an drive to the other.
Be sure thet the copy will have the same drive letter the original had and it 
will boot as if it were installed on. That means: if you tries to replace the 
old physical drive then you would do the following steps:

1. dismount the old master and mount the new drive as master
2. boot from floppy/cd to commandline
3. do the partitoning of the new drive as needed to boot from
   with LVM you would move to drive letters on the old drive to something else
   and then partitoning/volumeing the new drive to have the known drive letters 
there
4. formatting
5. xcopy anything from the old to the new drive as above
6. unmount the old drive
7. boot up.

 MP> Can this be done without reinstalling OS/2?  I had many problems
 MP> with the install, so I am hoping to avoid doing it again.  Is
 MP> there some sort of mirrordir program, like there is for linux,
 MP> that will allow me to copy the whole drives over to their new
 MP> locations?

 MP> Also, what do you do to back your system up?  I looked into
 MP> BACKUP, which apparently only works with floppies or empty
 MP> drives, and some of the offerings on Hobbes.  Backup My Way
 MP> (DrBMW) does not work here, but I have not tried the others yet. 
 MP> Figured I'd ask here, and then expect to do this next weekend,
 MP> instead of this one.  ;-)

archiving is best done with

when it is the system drive the best is to boot from CD/floppy first
then you would remove swapper.dat and any temp file to save a bit space in the 
archive

x:				- the drive where is room to place the archive
                                  the archive will need about 50% of the size
                                  the system uses now as free space
zip -9rSo srchive y:\*          - where y: is the drive you likes to archive
You can burn the archive.zip then on CD - but you would burn unzip.exe too to 
have it ready when you needs it.

you may restore the archive with

Create BM on the new drive
Do all needed partitoning/volumeing formatting on the new drive
x:                              - the drive to place the system
y:\unzip y:\archive             - drive and path to the archive and the 
unzip.exe
CAD to boot up.









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