1 Sep
2000
1 Sep
'00
1:42 a.m.
It's too bad there's so little functional provision for backups under the
currently popular OS'.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Lane <kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 9:40 PM
Subject: D'oh! Backup issue solved
<arrgh> Sometimes, the best answers are the most
obvious.
You may remember that, not long ago, I posted a blurb about having trouble
backing up an old MFM drive in a 1990-vintage datascope. Specifically,
that
it's non-DOS format and on a proprietary
controller.
As I was copying the manuals for a different datascope this afternoon, the
answer hit me like a lightning bolt, prompted by noticing that the pages I
was copying at the time had to do with backing up the hard drive in a
Digilog unit. "Maybe" I mused "the Interview 7500 has the same
capability."
Well, guess what? It did! It was not obvious because it was labeled "Copy
Disk" instead of "Backup hard drive," but it most definitely allowed
selecting the hard drive as the source and the floppy as the destination.
Three 1.44 meg floppies later, I not only had a backup copy of the
datascope's OS, but I also had it archived with Teledisk into long-term
storage.
The moral of the story is: If you run into a hard-drive operated
datascope, or any other special device that has its own drive, never
assume
that said device has no backup routine of its very
own! ;-)
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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 (Extra class as of June-2K)
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