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From: fisher@sc2a.unige.ch (Markus Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: restore not finding files
Message-ID: <197@sc2a.unige.ch>
Date: 28 Jun 90 11:32:30 GMT
References: <26867EC4.19383@paris.ics.uci.edu> <16360010@hpwrce.HP.COM>
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
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In article <16360010@hpwrce.HP.COM>, craigg@hpwrce.HP.COM writes:

[using RESTORE from root or from whithin a subdir]

> I tried this a few more times, and found that the files would not restore
> unless I was in the SUBDIR.  RESTORE would still ask me for all of the 
> floppies, but ended with "No Files found to Restore".

You must have forgotten the `/s' switch, telling RESTORE to restore *all* files.
If you omit this switch, only the current directory will be restored...

BTW: It doesn't matter from where you issued the BACKUP command, the full path
is stored in all cases.  The only way to shorten that path is to use SUBST.
(Thus the sequence:  SUBST X: C:\SOMEDIR; BACKUP X:*.* A: /s; RESTORE A: C: /s
will have the same effect as "XCOPY C:\SOMEDIR\ C:\ /S"...)

Regards,

Markus Fischer