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From: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Backing Up My Xenix Distribution Disks
Keywords: Perplexed ! Hrumpphh !
Message-ID: <717@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 90 17:10:47 GMT
References: <2479@crash.cts.com> <511648@nstar.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Organization: W. J. Vermillion, Winter Park, FL
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In article <511648@nstar.UUCP> larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
>In article <2479@crash.cts.com>, jburnes@crash.cts.com (Jim Burnes) writes:
>> I just got Xenix386 and would like to know the easiest way to backup my
>> distribution diskettes.  I dont want to go through makeing a file system
>> and then do recursive directory copies, if that what it entails.
 
>Use diskcopy supplied with your copy of DOS to copy the distribution
>disks.

Diskcopy used to work on the old uPort release, but not on the later ones.  I
haven't tried that under xenix because it is so easy the copy media routines
in the system.

Just fire up the sysadm shell, go to media, go to duplicate.     

It reads the disk into a file, you don't have to do it, and it lets you make
as many as you want before reloading the next source.

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