[Freedos-user] anything better in pure dos thant his?

2013-11-08 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi folks, I have aquired and set up two removable drives with which I intend backing up the two hard drives in my pure dos machine. I was planning to use xcopy for this, but before I start am wondering if there is anything else? Again although I am not using freedos, my computer only has dos,

Re: [Freedos-user] anything better in pure dos thant his?

2013-11-08 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote: I have aquired and set up two removable drives with which I intend backing up the two hard drives in my pure dos machine. I was planning to use xcopy for this, but before I start am wondering if there is

Re: [Freedos-user] anything better in pure dos thant his?

2013-11-08 Thread Louis Santillan
Ghost. Paragon/pts dos' drive backup tools. There used to be a drive image tool in FreeDOS but I don't recall if it was ever finished. Pkzip with disk spanning. 7zip with disk spanning. Tgz/tbz balls with split merge. FD backup. Ms backup. Other backup utils. It depends if you want a warm

Re: [Freedos-user] anything better in pure dos thant his?

2013-11-08 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-11-08 18:31 (GMT-0500) Karen Lewellen composed: I have aquired and set up two removable drives with which I intend backing up the two hard drives in my pure dos machine. I was planning to use xcopy for this, but before I start am wondering if there is anything else? Again although I

Re: [Freedos-user] anything better in pure dos thant his?

2013-11-08 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi, I did just join the xxcopy yahoo group, so I can learn if that has any advantages to using xcopy. To be more specific, this time around, I am doing a full backup of both my hard drives. The desire is everything this time around, full directory structure in tact, hidden files and system

Re: [Freedos-user] anything better in pure dos thant his?

2013-11-08 Thread Chris Evans
Xcopy c:\*.* d:\ /s /e /v On Nov 8, 2013 5:45 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote: Hi, I did just join the xxcopy yahoo group, so I can learn if that has any advantages to using xcopy. To be more specific, this time around, I am doing a full backup of both my hard drives.

Re: [Freedos-user] anything better in pure dos thant his?

2013-11-08 Thread Karen Lewellen
thanks, there are a couple more options, /x for system files and /s for all the sub directories, even if empty...but that looks like the ticket. Kare On Fri, 8 Nov 2013, Chris Evans wrote: Xcopy c:\*.* d:\ /s /e /v On Nov 8, 2013 5:45 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote:

Re: [Freedos-user] anything better in pure dos thant his?

2013-11-08 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote: I did just join the xxcopy yahoo group, so I can learn if that has any advantages to using xcopy. Okay, but I'm not sure they support the DOS version anymore. Their current .ZIP only has 32-bit and 64-bit PE /