Friday, September 21, 2007

Backup with DOS

Both MSBACKUP and Backup for Windows are used to copy your files to one or more backup diskettes for safekeeping. In this way, if you experience a disk driver failure or data error, you can restore your files from the bakcup media.

Using Backup, this first time you use backup, you are prompted to perform a compatibility test. This ensures that backup is steup properly for your computer
when running the compatiibility test, you should be familiar with following options that are selected during the compatibility test.
Verify backup data compare the copies backup data to the source for accurate reproduciton. This option greatly slows down the backup process.

Use error Correction, Creates error correction coding information to the backup media to improve the chances of restoring data if the target media becomes damaged. This is helpful if the target media becomes damaged by a scratch or abrasion.

Compare, Compares teh information in your backup set to the data on your hard disk to ensure that the data can be restored. Compare provides the maximum security bye comparing the data in the backupset against the original data on the harddisk.

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