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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Backup to multiple diskettes
Keywords: Backup
Message-ID: <1990Sep19.185817.27730@uwasa.fi>
Date: 19 Sep 90 18:58:17 GMT
References: <2726@loria.crin.fr>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <2726@loria.crin.fr> anigbogu@loria.crin.fr (Julian Anigbogu) writes:
>Please could somebody point me to a program in the simtel archives
>that permits the backup of a hard-disk directory onto several
>diskettes. I have a lot of files in directory that belong together and
>I would like to avoid having to calculate and select files accordingly
>before copying to diskettes.

   There are several alternatives (as you can see from other
responses).  One alternative is to use (/pc/pd2/)pcopy85d.zip. The
only snag is that the switches are so abundant that it'll take some
figuring to set it working appropriately.  
   The usual claimer :-) holds: Available by anonymous ftp from
chyde.uwasa.fi. 

  BTW, such a utility would not be overly difficult to write eg in
Turbo Pascal.  The well-know trick would be to use the archive bit
as a marker which files have already been copied, which not.  In
fact, a clever use of xcopy _might_ achieve the same thing.

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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