[Coco] Backing up a HD to an SD

[Barry Nelson]

If the hard drive is OS9 formatted, you don't have to modify the dsave output, or change makdir, you can just run this:
CHD /OD
DSAVE -T /ND ! SHELL -P

The makdir command may throw some errors if a directory already exist, but the process does not abort, try it.
The dsave and copy commands on the current version of NitrOS9 also support a -r option to replace existing files.

Please note, this works if the hard drive is OS9 formatted. Some of my message were discussing how to copy a Disk Extended BASIC/HDBDOS/RGBDOS formatted drive, which is much harder, short of manually copying each floppy section out to a floppy, of course, which could take a while depending on if you are using all 255 HDB/RGB DOS drive segments.

On Jun 13, 2015, at 4:09 PM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:

>  That is exactly why I had to modify the "dsave" script. To work around 
> that. Once I get that "main" coco all fixed up and connected to this W7 
> box. Then I can work on transferring that makdir command which you made.
>  Right now, I have to get that coco up and running again. Quite a few 
> steps to get to that end.
> 
> George R

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