Re: Archive creation failure
Erick Andrews wrote:[color=blue]
> I can't seem to find the information on the mechanism (the exe, dll, etc.) of what
> creates the system archives on boot up, after the the Desktop Properties
> Notebook is enabled for "create archive at each system startup".
>
> I have determined that the os2.ini and os2sys.ini files are not correctly archived
> because on restoration at startup, several Desktop icons are blank. I have proved
> that the restore process works ok because when I copy good os2.ini and os2sys.ini
> files into, say, the \os2\archives\01 directory (from maintenance partition), the
> Desktop loads ok. This issue is repeatable. My good ini files are from a backup,
> and normal rebooting works fine.
>
> Archiving used to work correctly some time ago, maybe a few years ago.
>
> This system has been quite solid: Warp Server for e-business, Convenience Pack 2.
>
> Any Ideas what I should look at?[/color]
ARCINST.EXE is the process which creates the archive. There may even be
some help for it in the IBM help files somewhere, but it's been a while
since I looked. I remember there was a configuration file for it
containing a list of files to include in the archive also. The people
who worked on the eCS installation routines probably know it quite well
if you can get a hold of them.
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Re: Archive creation failure
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:30:35 UTC, Marty <net@comcast.martyamodeo> wrote:
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> Erick Andrews wrote:[color=green]
> > I can't seem to find the information on the mechanism (the exe, dll, etc.) of what
> > creates the system archives on boot up, after the the Desktop Properties
> > Notebook is enabled for "create archive at each system startup".
> >
> > I have determined that the os2.ini and os2sys.ini files are not correctly archived
> > because on restoration at startup, several Desktop icons are blank. I have proved
> > that the restore process works ok because when I copy good os2.ini and os2sys.ini
> > files into, say, the \os2\archives\01 directory (from maintenance partition), the
> > Desktop loads ok. This issue is repeatable. My good ini files are from a backup,
> > and normal rebooting works fine.
> >
> > Archiving used to work correctly some time ago, maybe a few years ago.
> >
> > This system has been quite solid: Warp Server for e-business, Convenience Pack 2.
> >
> > Any Ideas what I should look at?[/color]
>
> ARCINST.EXE is the process which creates the archive. There may even be
> some help for it in the IBM help files somewhere, but it's been a while
> since I looked. I remember there was a configuration file for it
> containing a list of files to include in the archive also. The people
> who worked on the eCS installation routines probably know it quite well
> if you can get a hold of them.
>[/color]
Arcinst.exe. Yes, I remember now! And arcrecov.exe is its restoration twin.
A quick comparison of them with my maintenance partition yields OK. The
keys.$$$ files look OK, too. I'll have to hack around some more. I'm suspicious
something in that area got smushed with a power glitch a while ago while
doing the last archive.
Thanks.
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Best,
Erick Andrews
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Re: Archive creation failure
Erick Andrews schrieb:[color=blue]
>
> Arcinst.exe. Yes, I remember now! And arcrecov.exe is its restoration twin.
>
> A quick comparison of them with my maintenance partition yields OK. The
> keys.$$$ files look OK, too. I'll have to hack around some more. I'm suspicious
> something in that area got smushed with a power glitch a while ago while
> doing the last archive.[/color]
What arcinst.exe will do when you run it is that it will replace your
original backup (taken directly after installation: 0X archive
directory) with the current set of files so be careful if you don't want
that to happen. On the other side, it's a good idea if you have made
many changes to your system compared to the original installation.
In your case it might also be a good idea to wipe out the whole archive
set and run arcinst.exe to reset the whole archiving.
Make sure that the files
\os2\archives\os2.key
\os2\archives\registry.key
look something like this:
\os2\archives\os2.key
KEYFILE:OS2.INI
KEYFILE:OS2SYS.INI
KEYFILE:D:\CONFIG.SYS
KEYFILE:D:\STARTUP.CMD
KEYFILE:D:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
KEYFILE:D:\OS2INIT.CMD
\os2\archives\registry.key
KEYFILE:D:\OS2\SYSTEM\USER.DAT
KEYFILE:D:\OS2\SYSTEM\SYSTEM.DAT
also make sure that SET USER_INI and SET SYSTEM_INI in config.sys point
to the INIs that you intend to use (and backup).
Lars
