anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) (12/30/89)
Backing up, summary:
Here's what people have told me and what I did.
Situation:
1.3, AT version, only one 1.2MB drive available.
Problem:
How to back up distribution disks.
Suggestion: use DOS diskcopy a: a: I seem to remember
that I used diskcopy a: b: back with 1.1, when everything
was on 360K disks. Maybe I used cp /dev/fd0 /dev/fd1, I
don't recall now.
But diskcopy a: a: does *not* work with MS-DOS (3.2).
I'm told it does work with PC-DOS (pretty curious).
Once I had the hard disk going, and because I could spare
the space for 6MB, what I did was painful but effective.
I created five files (disk[1-5]) on /user with
cp /dev/at0 /user/disk1
etc. and make copies by doing the inverse. Seems to work
ok.
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