Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!pallas!kabra437 From: kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Backing up hard disk for transfer to new disk. Summary: SCO Xenix backup and restore. Message-ID: <316@pallas.athenanet.com> Date: 18 Mar 90 00:33:00 GMT References: <3714NU013809@NDSUVM1> Reply-To: kabra437@pallas.UUCP (Ken Abrams) Organization: Athenanet, Inc., Springfield, Illinois Lines: 25 In article <3714NU013809@NDSUVM1> NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Greg Wettstein) writes: >My question is basically: What is the best utility/procedure to use so that >the contents of the 80 megabyte drive can be transfered to the 330 megabyte >drive with a minimum of system disruption? > I DO wish folks would leave a ! formatted address in their posts .... Anyhow, this is probably of general interest. I can't say what is best for this purpose but the Xenix backup and restore WILL work quite easily to do what you want. Executing the proceedure is a snap; getting all the necessary information and making the necessary preparations is the tough part. It took me about 6 months to assemble all the information and test out the proceedures enough that I was comfortable with it. THEN I replaced my hard disk. Everything went like clock work. The key to the whole thing is making a boot/root floppy with all the necessary programs on it (restore in particular). Procedures for doing this can be had from SCO if you are "supported". Feel free to send me mail or better yet give me a call sometime. All the gory details are probably too much for net posts. -- ======================================================== Ken Abrams uunet!pallas!kabra437 Illinois Bell kabra437@athenanet.com Springfield (voice) 217-753-7965