Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-09-01 Thread escape
On 30.08.11 16:16, Michael B. Brutman wrote: On a slightly related topic, I've been thinking about what to do on the smaller machines to increase the amount of working storage. With a strict programming API I can use temp files as backing storage, kind of like implementing bank switched

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-30 Thread escape
On 29.08.11 01:03, Michael B. Brutman wrote: On 8/25/2011 6:20 PM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:48 PM, escapeesc...@front.ru wrote: If you use dos alone and purely on your machine, but nevertheless have some *nix server access you can use rsync client for dos:

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-30 Thread Michael B. Brutman
On 8/30/2011 1:46 AM, escape wrote: Great to hear, as mTCP becoming all-you-need-for-dos-networking solution. BTW what do you think about how hard it wiil be to implement DOS-based rsync server, even if feature-limited? I started looking at the rsync client - getting past the compiler and

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, An rsync server? I need help ... there is not enough time If you ask me, rsync works well and is safer when you can do it over ssh, but that sort of leads to the question whether you have a SSH server for DOS. Nice clients include ssh2dos. strict programming API I can use temp

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-28 Thread Michael B. Brutman
On 8/25/2011 6:20 PM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:48 PM, escapeesc...@front.ru wrote: If you use dos alone and purely on your machine, but nevertheless have some *nix server access you can use rsync client for dos: http://www.2net.co.uk/rsync.html Good, GPL. Interesting,

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-25 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:48 PM, escape esc...@front.ru wrote: If you use dos  alone and purely on your machine, but nevertheless have some *nix server access you can use rsync client for dos: http://www.2net.co.uk/rsync.html Good, GPL. Interesting, works on 8086 (Borland C 3.1) w/ only

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-25 Thread Ray Davison
James Hahn wrote: Hello Ray, Thanks for sharing pictures of your setup. It's a real fascinating setup. Other than a duplicating machine, what function does it serve while connected to your network? It is primarily a storage box. In it's normal mode it has one boot/app drive, three

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-24 Thread James Hahn
Hello Ray, Thanks for sharing pictures of your setup. It's a real fascinating setup. Other than a duplicating machine, what function does it serve while connected to your network? Thanks, Jim On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Ray Davison ray...@charter.net wrote: Karen Lewellen wrote: A

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-19 Thread Dyster Robert (SANDWELL AND WEST BIRMINGHAM HOSPITALS NHS TRUST)
-Original Message- From: Karen Lewellen [mailto:klewel...@shellworld.net] Sent: 17 August 2011 14:13 To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century? Hi, its okay. let me be more clear. I *only* use dos, it is the *only* os to which I have

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-19 Thread Ray Davison
Karen Lewellen wrote: A question mainly for those who use dos alone and purely on your machines. I am asking how you do large backup work yourself now? say 3 gig or so? I have a couple suggestions for your consideration. First, anyone who is doing anything serious with a PC needs this:

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-17 Thread dos386
Given the size of hard rives, using trusty pkip to create a set of backup discs is well not possible. No need to backup disk image ;-) how you do large backup work yourself now? say 3 gig or so? Copy gig files or archive and compress then. Personally, I'd probably just burn the files to

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-17 Thread Karen Lewellen
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

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-17 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 17-8-2011 15:12, Karen Lewellen schreef: 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.

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Karen, 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 What

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net 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

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-16 Thread escape
If you use dos alone and purely on your machine, but nevertheless have some *nix server access you can use rsync client for dos: http://www.2net.co.uk/rsync.html If it is the case, than probably this will be the best solution, as rsync is one of the most widely used tools for backups. BTW this

[Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-15 Thread Karen Lewellen
A question mainly for those who use dos alone and purely on your machines. Given the size of hard rives, using trusty pkip to create a set of backup discs is well not possible. The nice thing about functional usb drivers is of course that one can attach an external drive for this, and I

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-15 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 16-8-2011 0:12, Karen Lewellen schreef: Given the size of hard rives, using trusty pkip to create a set of backup discs is well not possible. 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