[Coco] Backing up a HD to an SD

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 14 June 2015 00:19:38 George Ramsower wrote:
> On 6/13/2015 5:23 PM, Barry Nelson wrote:
> > 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.
>
>   Okay, I fooled with this a bit on my little CC3. My main CC3 with
> the hard disk is down for the moment. The little CC3 only has one 3.5"
> floppy. I've been relying on the "main" CC3 for all my disk builds and
> communications to a PC, which I no longer have (soon to be corrected).
>
>   So I tried a few things on the little CC3 on-screen to see what it
> would do.
>   Dsave has no idea what the script it writes will do. I don't know
> what the Pipe descriptor does so I can't say one way or another...yet.
> I did type in "dsave -?" and "T" was not on the list.  Is that a
> hidden thing?
>   Now "m" was in the list used as "-m" and it is supposed to keep it
> from creating a new directory but does this mean that, IN NO WAY will
> it create a new one? or only if there is one there already?

no, that iirc means it doesn't issue the command at all.

>   Darn, I feel stupid right now. I thought I used to know quite a lot
> about this OS and now, I'm feeling ignorant.
>
If you've got a nitros9 instll, be aware that dsave was rewritten long 
ago, and the new syntax is different.  However the new syntax should 
show if you issue "help dsave".

> George R

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