On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
As per subject
line, does anyone know of any util that will back up
an x86 PC running some variant of DOS (MS, Compaq etc.) via rs232 to
a remote system? (Linux preferable on the remote, but other options
exist)
Bring up a liveCD or moral equivalent and run SLIP, then do any of many
networked-backup variants? SLIP at 115200 is only about 1% of a 10Mb
Ethernet, but that may be enough to be useful, especially if you
compress
10kb/s is about 800MB/day (rounded down), or roughly 1CD / day.
Warner