Hi,
its okay. let me be more clear.
I *only* use dos, it is the *only* os to which I have access for
this purpose.
because I do a great deal of work from this machine, years worth of data,
audio production projects and the like I desire a method to back up both of
my dos drives safely that preserves the data. not just files, entire
drives. In this case, although they are not full this means two 20 gig
drives. Yes I realize 3 gig is not large any more, but I am not sure the
largest drive capacitor for ms dos 7.1 which I run. I am guessing indeed
getting a very large external drive and creating partitions to represent
my backup drive storage space.
I will hunt for Norton ghost, I have a copy of the last dos <that I knew
of> edition of norton utilities, and disk doctor is sensational.
booting another os would not give me a place to put the files, nor a
regular way to upgrade the backup I create.
You were helpful, you told me of program that may do the trick, and in
Norton which I really like in general.
Thanks for answering my question, its the first reply I have gotten.
Karen
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Rugxulo wrote:
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.)
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