x86/DOS system backup via rs232?

[Tom Moss]

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On 12 November 2015 at 21:58, Tom Moss <tomjmoss at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I've never seen anything works on the sector level, but there are plenty
> of terminal emulators that can backup entire directorties with YMODEM batch
> or Kermit.
>
> Is there any paricular reason you want disk imaging capability?
> Bootsectors on DOS can be re-written with the SYS command, so a boot floppy
> of the same version + the terminal emulator should be all you need to do a
> restore.
>
> On 12 November 2015 at 21:54, Jules Richardson <
> jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>> 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)
>>
>> I'm not finding anything via Google, but it seems like the sort of thing
>> that some of the folks here may have done for their systems in the past.
>>
>> I'm thinking something that will do a sector-by-sector transfer from a
>> given partition (maybe only in-use sectors, implying some minor
>> intelligence on the remote end to covert into a raw image, but "send
>> everything" mentality is better than nothing) - extra points for retrying
>> bad sectors.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Jules
>>
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