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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Chkpoint file... is it a UNIX backup file ? Post 302987512 by BillSwan on Sunday 11th of December 2016 12:44:04 PM
Old 12-11-2016
Chkpoint file... is it a UNIX backup file ?
Hello

Helping a friend who had an accounting program called multisoft, hasn't used it for 4 years. I believe it was installed on a Unix box. He has a tax audit and needed to switch on the pc / server to access the data but the hard drive was beeping... totally dead.

He said he had a backup on a zip drive and looking at it, it has a single file called chkpoint , 160mb, no file extension.

Is a chkpoint file a default Unix backup file or a third party Unix backup program ?

I believe it was on a Unix box because when I open the file in notepad, yes get all the unreadable characters ...lol... but also can see dev/tty2a and dev/lp0 and usr/cpoint.. on some lines of data.

Appreciate any pointers and I know its a long shot but anyone got the multisoft program / install media... lol

Thanks
 

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backup-manager(8)					      System Manager's Manual						 backup-manager(8)

NAME

       backup-manager - An easy to use backup tool for your Linux box.

SYNOPSIS

	 backup-manager [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Backup Manager is an easy-to-use tool for generating archives.

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CONFIGURATION FILES

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