pkzip Help Sheet

Help Sheet

Using alternate back-up and restore mechanisms

Recent changes to Maplewood's Administration systems for DOS now allow you to customize your own command line backup/restore mechanisms. This change permits the use of compression utilities such as pkzip for backing-up and restoring your data. This offers several advantages:

Compatibility - Compression software is DOS version independent, so any changes in your operating system won't affect your Maplewood backup.
Economy - Compression software reduces the number of diskettes required to backup your data; typically in a ratio of about 1 : 5.

Please note: Data previously backed-up under Microsoft or PC backup cannot be restored within Maplewood once these changes have been made, but can still be restored manually.

Configuring your backup for use with pkzip (version 2.04g)

To configure your backup system,

choose System Maintenance, Backup School Data (Backup School\Library Data if you are using Maplewood Library), Define Backup/Restore commands. Select the appropriate backup command to modify, and enter the matching command from the table below:

For Backup school files	pkzip -rp -&w {drive}:\backup.zip {path}\*.
For Backup library files	pkzip -rp -&w {drive}:\backup.zip {path}\*.
For Backup student/staff pictures	pkzip -rp -&w {drive}:\backup.zip {path}\*.gif

Configuring your restore for use with pkunzip (version 2.04g)

To configure your restore system,

choose System Maintenance, Backup school data (Backup School\Library data if you are using Maplewood Library). Select the appropriate restore command to modify, and enter the matching command from the table below:

For Restore school files	pkunzip -d {drive}:\backup.zip {path}
For Restore library files	pkunzip -d {drive}:\backup.zip {path}
For Restore student/staff pictures	pkunzip -d {drive}:\backup.zip {path}

If you are performing either of these procedures from DOS, replace {drive} with your storage device drive letter (eg. A) and {path} with the path to your Maplewood system eg. F:\ADMIN\*.

Revision 1.0 98/06/21