Backup 3.11 MSBACKUP.EXE

[Ralf Janaszek]

To restore some archieved files in need the file MSBACKUP.EXE, which was part of Win 3.11.
Could anybody give me an advice, where I could get this file???
Thanks
Ralf Janaszek

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[Jerry Lippey/MVP]

Ralf, there was no backup program that was part of any version of 16-bit
Windows. They all came with MS-DOS. MS-DOS 6.x came with both MSBACKUP.EXE for
DOS and MWBACKUP.EXE which ran in Windows.

If you have the Windows 95 CD-ROM, you have the MSBACKUP.EXE that came with
MS-DOS 6.22. If you don't, you can download it.

See this article.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q138/1/35.asp
("Restoring Backups Created with Earlier Versions of MS-DOS")

It is important that you know what version of MS-DOS was in use. Backups that
came with 6.0 and 6.2 usually pose problems that may be overcome only with
difficulty (because a different compression system was in use and compression
was the default).
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-Jerry

Ralf Janaszek wrote:
>
> To restore some archieved files in need the file MSBACKUP.EXE, which was part
> of Win 3.11.
> Could anybody give me an advice, where I could get this file???
> Thanks
> Ralf Janaszek

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>
> Web: http://www.janaszek.de
> Email: r...@janaszek.de

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[Jerry Lippey/MVP]

> Do you know, where msbackup.exe could be downloaded?

Sure, Ralf. Download the self-extracting file MSBACK.EXE from this web page:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/downloads/dp1700.asp

Decompress the file in a folder by itself. You'll get these files.

Msbackdb.ovl Msbackup.hlp
Msbconfg.ovl Msbackup.exe
Msbackup.ovl Msbackfr.ovl
Msbconfg.hlp Msbackdr.ovl
Msbackfb.ovl

You may need to use Setver to fool Msbackup.exe into thinking that MS-DOS 7.1 is
6.22. If you don't know how to do that, come back here.
--
-Jerry

Ralf Janaszek wrote:
>
>
> Hello Jerry,
> thanks for your help.
> One problem:
> On the page http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q138/1/35.asp
> they write:
> "To restore a backup created with the backup programs included with MS-DOS 6.x, use
> the Msbackup.exe program located in the Other\Oldmsdos\Msbackup folder on the
> Windows 95 CD-ROM. "
> Unfortunately on my Win95-CD in this mentioned folder "oldmsdos" there is no
> msbackup.exe-file (only 4 files [help.com; help.hlp; qbasic.exe; qbasic.hlp] and no
> subfolder.

> You wrote:
>
> > If you have the Windows 95 CD-ROM, you have the MSBACKUP.EXE that came with
> > MS-DOS 6.22. If you don't, you can download it.
>

> Do you know, where msbackup.exe could be downloaded? On the above mentioned
> Microsoft-Web-site there is no download-possibillity.
> Thanks again for yor help.
> Ralf