[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: [coco] HD backups

[david_g21120]

--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "George's Coco Address" 
<yahoo at ...> wrote:
>
>   I looked around on RTSI for a backup utility under OS9. The only 
I have 
> found, copies the whole drive.
> 
>  Is there a backup utility that will only backup the most recent 
and 
> recently updated files? As any coco HD user knows, backing up the 
entire 
> drive takes many hours. At least, on MY drive it takes about 
thirteen hours.
> 
>  Since I got the external case and PS from Frank Swygert(thanks, 
Frank!) I 
> now have my 2nd drive working again and need to do a backup.
> 
> George
>
There is a utility called bak that will make recursive backups of 
directories (or complete hard drives) to floppy's or another hard 
drive (but it doesn't compress them) it was written in 1991 by Kieth 
Alphanso, and sold through CoCoPro
Usage: bak <sourcedir> <destinationdir> -r

The program requires makdir and copy to be in memory or in your 
execution directory. If you can't find it, let me know I have a copy. 
it works with OS-9 ver 1.00.00 and newer, it also works under all 
versions of NitrOS-9.

Hope this helps.