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

[L. Curtis Boyle]

On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 07:59:06 -0600, david_g21120 <david_g21120 at yahoo.com>  
wrote:

> --- 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.
>
>
    Bruce Isted also did a PD one called STREAM, that I used to use at work  
all of the time. It spanned disks, supported hi-density, and could restore  
subsets of files, and even could restore files from disks you popped in  
 from the middle of the backup set (but it was pretty slow doing the last).  
Frank Hogg also sold FBU, but I preferred STREAM.


-- 
L. Curtis Boyle