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From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Backing Up My Xenix Distribution Disks
Summary: how about dd
Keywords: Perplexed ! Hrumpphh !
Message-ID: <678@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 90 19:54:09 GMT
References: <2479@crash.cts.com>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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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.

After reading 4 or 5 answers that were amazingly complicated or assumed
you had something called DOS :-) I decided to make a suggestion - how
about dd?  It is what I always use.
Just dd from the floppy to a file on the hard disk and a second dd to make
the copy works ok or floppy to floppy to floppy if you have two drives.
To be more efficient I suggest you specify a blocking factor that is a
multiple of the track size.  For example, for a 15 sector/track disk,
something like:
    dd if=/dev/rfd096ds15 of=/tmp/caca bs=30b
would work fine.
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