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From: GTHEALL@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU (George A. Theall)
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Subject: Re: HardDisk Backup on the RB
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Date: 30 Aug 90 13:14:00 GMT
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>Does anyone have or know where I can get a HD backup program that does
>backs up *recursively* ( i.e. you dont have to go dir by dir manually ) ?
>
>(As anyone ;) , I'd prefer it to be PD free.

   It's not for backups per se, but I have used PKZIP/PKUNZIP for
backing up and restoring my hard disk. With PKZIP's -r option you
can have it recurse directories, and the names of those directories
are stored in the ZIP file if the -p option is specified.

   You can either ZIP up an entire drive and then chop the ZIP
into pieces small enough to fit on a floppy or ZIP up selected
directories, say all those off of the root, such that no single
ZIP is too big for a floppy.

   It's not public domain, but I've found it beats the heck out
of BACKUP/RESTORE.


George

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