Hi, On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Karen Lewellen <[email protected]> wrote: > > A question mainly for those who use dos alone and purely on your > machines. Given the size of hard rives, using trusty pkzip to create > a set of backup discs is well not possible.
I forget, what are the limits for the .ZIP format, 65000 files? You could just use multiple archives (or a different format). But yeah, .ZIP isn't really meant for backups (is it???). > The nice thing about functional usb drivers is of course that one can attach > an external drive for this, and I guess? still use pkzip for the purpose? Presumably some (most?) BIOSes will emulate a USB hard drive for you anyways, if you plug it in before bootup. > I understand one can make an image too in dos. Probably, yes, though I've never personally tried. > After having a major hard drive scare today though, and with my use of a > dsl modem to a network having a a touch worried about security too, I am > asking how you do large backup work yourself now? say 3 gig or so? 3 GB isn't exactly "large" anymore. They (e.g. Dell) already advertize 3 TB disks for like $119US or whatever. 3 GB should be easy (in theory). I don't really understand the question (and of course am the worst person to ask). Are you trying to backup the entire DOS partition (3 GB) to network or just to external drive or all of the above or ... ? Symantec (Norton) Ghost allegedly used to have a DOS version. Not sure if the latest still has it, even in an "/old/" subdir. That always sounded like the best way to do it, and CWS always seems to swear by it. Otherwise you're probably going to be told, "Boot a Linux live CD, use their tools". Even dd could probably be used, but I wouldn't recommend that except in a pinch. Personally, I'd probably just burn the files to DVD-RW from within a "modern" OS, esp. if you "only" need to backup 3 GB. (Sorry if this isn't as helpful as I'd like.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
