Re: backup, new profile

** Reply to note from [email protected] Wed, 26 Feb 2020 12:00:01 +0000
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> What's the difference between dSync and rsync? If She understands it  correct, rsync will backup everything it's told to
> backup, but can rsync  and Dsync be setup so that it will backup everything on the system on  for example Saturday and
> only backup changed cat/files the other days of  the week? Backing up everything every day will take time. The new
> box  have USB 3.0 but She haven't heard of any OS2 / eCs USB drivers that can  handle USB 3.0, only USB 2.0. The team
> behind ArcaOS is developing USB  3.0 drivers but haven't released them yet, and She don't have an active  download
> license for it yet - it must be renewed when there is money  available.

 With either software you only do a full backup once. After is incremental. Rsync only copies the part of file that has
changed, but it has to calculate the missing part. Dsync copies the entire file that was modified, on local drives is actually
faster than rsync. Further the version of rsync used did not always delete what it should. After some time it was not a
mirror image. Dsync has a simple config  file. Backup done within 3 minutes on usb 2.0

> The newest FAT32 version is 19-09-25 5.31 1.203.904 74  fat32-0.10-r378-os2.zip and is dated 2019-09-10, so it's a
> newer one  than the version that you mentioned. Check with Netlabs if they have  this new version available, it's free

 Will search for above, current version gives a demonstration of how a 286 performed.

> She uses Warpin because it's easier to do an install via it than doing  it via WpView and then figure out where the stuff
> should go. As for the  FAT32 driver and cache software, they go into the config.sys entirely,  no need to call CACHEF32
> from the startup.cmd file. Btw, do you feel  that your keyboard is slow? Then She can tell you of a small gem of 
> software namely ks.exe (freeware, have it first in the startup.cmd) and  She invokes it with ks.exe 0 30 meaning zero
> delay and 30 repetitions  per second as She have learned to type with ALL fingers without having  to look at them - She

 Use Warpin, save datbas_D.ini re-install Warpin, copy database file and it should function again.

> mode of typing have stood Her in good  stead ever since. So if you are interested in this ks.exe program (less  than
> 20kb in size) She can send it to you when the new profile is up and  running.

 Yes send ks.exe, here is what I use for that:

d:\program\typerate 40 200
d:\program\mouspeed 4 2 7 4

 40 repetitions, mouse a lot faster

> With the old BackAgain/2 program, She backed up the WHOLE system every  Saturday and only backed up things tha's
> have changed after the FULL  backup, i.e. an incremental backup. A FULL backup took about 2 hours  onto a DATT74 tape
> but the Incremental backups took about fifteen  minutes each. As She have learned the hard way that backups are 

 Why would one continually backup files that did not change? You prefer wearing hard drives out?

> On the migration tack: Which parameters can SMPMW118 be invoked with?  She need the whole set of them. She will go
> the route of firing up  SMPMW118 in offline mode and bring up the Profile manager. In another  OS/2 session, fire up
> SMPMW118 in offline mode, having set  MOZILLA_HOME=R:\MOZILLA.ORG\MOZILLA, then bring up the profile manager
>  and creating the new profile Brekke with the desired settings. But when  this new profile is created, how does one
> migrate the Adress Book and  Mail&Newsgroups, i.e. which parameters must be entered to do the job?

 Below is what have for parameters:

Usage: firefox [-flags] [<url>]
-height <value>     Set height of startup window to <value>
-h or -help     Print this message
-width <value>      Set width of startup window to <value>
-v or -version      Print Firefox version
-P <profile>        Start with <profile>
-ProfileManager     Start with profile manager
-UILocale <locale>      Start with <locale> resources as UI Locale
-contentLocale <locale>     Start with <locale> resources as content Locale
-console        Start Firefox with a debugging console
-jsconsole           Open the JavaScript console
-browser            Open a browser window
/safe-mode

 Do not recall which version above was from, may be version 2. firefox -h on your version may assist. As for migration, if
you copy all the files from a previous profile and 1 file is corrupted, would you expect new profile to have same
corruption? You mentioned Sent file does not function. Then that may be the corrupt file. 

 If I was doing this, would create a new profile, then copy files 1 at a time to find the corrupted one. Unless you believe
prefs.js is the problem. 

abook.mab is address book
dat files may need to be copied.
\Mail directory would only copy files manually 1 at a time, probably here where the bad file located.

        Cal