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From: gsteckel@vergil.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Steckel - Sun BOS Hardware CONTRACTOR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Backup of DOS partitions
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Date: 9 May 91 22:38:29 GMT
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 In article <3799@sixhub.UUCP>, davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
 |> Does anyone have software which will backup the DOS partition on the
 |> hard disk from unix or xenix? Please don't suggest using dd, if you've
 |> tried you know why that's not the solution.
 |> would be useful but not required.
In article <638@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> tmh@prosun.first.gmd.de (Thomas Hoberg) writes:
 Well on ISC at least, it's possible to simply mount the DOS file system and use
 find, cpio or tar. If you have VPIX you could run one of the DOS cpio's in a
 pipe. Even PC-Backup on a file (even UNIX char special?) should work.

I tried the mount approach.  tar and cpio repeatedly save the first file found
over and over and over and ...  Has anyone gotten this to work correctly,
and if so, how?  I haven't tried PAX yet.  Of course, I may have set something
up wrong...

	geoff steckel (gwes@wjh12.harvard.EDU)
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