Topic:	Backing up OM4 to a Removable Cartridge Drive
Document:	#128
Product:	SOS Office Manager DOS
Date:	February 17, 1997
Author:	Seth Krieger

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Many users find it convenient to use a high-capacity removable cartridge drive, such as Iomega's Zip drive, to backup their Office Manager data. The simplest way to do this is with a series of DOS commands in a batch file. The following instructions take you through this process step by step.

1. Start the SOS program.
   
2. Select Edit Text File on the UTILITIES menu.
   
3. When prompted for a file name, type BKUPSOS.BAT, then press <Enter>.
   
4. A message will appear notifying you that the file was not found and asking if you want to create a new one. Press <Y>.
   
5. The editor will ask you to confirm that you want to create a new file. Press <Y>.
   
6. You will now be looking at a blank screen, usually blue with a green bar at the top. Type the following, just as you see it here, except substitute the actual drive letter assigned to your cartridge drive wherever you see "e:". If your cartridge drive is letter e:, then type it exactly as below.
   
   echo off
   cls
   echo Please insert a cartridge in drive E:
   pause
   xcopy *.dat E: /s/e/v/y
   xcopy *.k* E: /s/e/v/y
   xcopy *.mem E: /s/e/v/y
   pause
   
7. To save the file and exit the editor, press <F4>, then <Y>, and <Y> again.
   
8. Now that you have created the batch file, you must tell the program to use it as your "backup program". Select Backup Program on the SETUP menu.
   
9. For the Location, enter .\ (a period followed by a backslash). This is a shorthand that just means "the current directory".
   
10. For the Command line, enter BKUPSOS.BAT and save the setup by pressing <F10>.
    
    You should now be able to execute your backup batch file from the UTILITIES menu or by responding "yes" to the backup question on exit from the program. These commands will copy all the data files to the cartridge, retaining the path placement. In other words, if PTINF.DAT is in the \OM directory on your C: drive, it will also be in \OM on your E: drive after the backup.
    
    Be sure to rotate through no fewer than 3 cartridges, and be sure that one of them is always taken off premises. We recommend a 6 cartridge rotation, with one cartridge for each day of the week and a second Friday cartridge to be used on alternate weeks.