[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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