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Backing up CAD systems

1999-02-03 06:17:25
Subject: Backing up CAD systems
From: "Rupp Thomas (Illwerke)" <thomas.rupp AT ILLWERKE.CO DOT AT>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:17:25 +0100
Hi ADSM-ers,

Our CAD systems (like our databases) can get quite large.
As all of our CAD systems keep the names of the drawings
in a separate index file and assign cryptic names or numbers
to the data files it seems rather complicated to restore a single
drawing.
Recently I had to do a restore:
*       Start the ADSM GUI for restore
*       Select active/inactive files for display
*       Define a filter so only files before a given date will be
displayed
(I'm running ADSM/VM V2 so no Point in time restore is available)
*       Restore *ALL* files to a new directory
*       The user starts the CAD system with this new directory
*       The user exports the desired drawing
*       The user imports the drawing to the old CAD directroy
*       The new directory is discarded

As this approach is very time consuming (I have to restore all files to
get a single one) I would like to speed it up.

How do you backup/restore your CAD drawings?
Any comments will be highly appreciated!
Thanks in advance

Kind regards
Thomas Rupp
Vorarlberger Illwerke AG
MAIL:   thomas.rupp AT illwerke.co DOT at
TEL:    ++43/5574/4991-251
FAX:    ++43/5574/4991-820-8251
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