[Coco] Featured backup utility?

J.P. Samson coco+list at jeanpaulsamson.com
Tue Jan 11 21:54:32 EST 2011


On Jan. 11, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Todd Wallace wrote:
> I have recently started to backup my old 5.25in floppies from when I  
> was a kid.  Many are old with bad sectors.  Drivewire makes it easy  
> to backup from floppy disk to disk image on my computer.  I have  
> been using the DECB BACKUP command, however, as you know, as soon as  
> it encounters a bad sector, it aborts with ?IO ERROR.  So I thought  
> I'd ask, can someone recommend a more advanced backup utlity that is  
> capable of skipping/ignoring bad sectors or, even better, work a  
> little harder to get that bad sector?

Carl England sells a suite of backup utilities (e.g. Backup Magic),  
one of which I'm pretty sure will skip bad sectors.

-- JP




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