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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: backing up 3.5" disks
Message-ID: <38570@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 12 Feb 90 23:47:23 GMT
References: <3393@plains.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <3393@plains.UUCP> grisanti@plains.UUCP (Ames Grisanti) writes:
>I was wondering if anyone out there knows of a program to
>backup 3.5" disks to multiple 5.25" disks. What would be nice
>is if it would function similar to the BACKUP command of
>MS-DOS. 

My Davex 8 command shell comes with a pair of commands called 'vstore'
and 'vrestore' that can save and restore ProDOS volumes to and from
ProDOS files, and they're smart enough to ask for more disks when they
need to.

I was actually thinking of folks saving RAMdisk images onto real disks,
but the commands will work for backing up 3.5s onto 5.25s if you really
want to.

I don't know how BACKUP works in MS-DOS, so I don't know if mine is
similar.  The syntax is  vstore volume-name pathname  and
vrestore pathname device-number.
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