[Coco] [color computer] archiving or backing up a hard drive

[Paul T. Barton]

--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "George's Coco Address"
<yahoo at ...> wrote:
>
> Now that I only have one hard drive on my CC3, I need a way to get the 
> contents of that drive to this PC.
> 
> What I wanted to do was use LHA to archive each directory in the
root, but 
> it won't do subdirectories. This means I would have to go to the lowest 
> subdirectory and archive it's contents, then move up and archive that 
> archive and the files in that directory and then move up one
directory and 
> .... well you get the idea, I think.
> 
> Does anyone have a method of backing up or archiving a directory and
it's 
> subdirectories to a file? I can then transfer that file to this PC.
> 
> Heck, it would even be okay if a utility would simply archive the whole 
> drive to a file, but this would take a month of Sundays to do the
whole hard 
> drive.
> 
> I'm thinking that creating a DSK image would do that, but I would
rather 
> break it up into smaller files.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> George
>

George,

I too use DSAVE but do it like this:
CD /H0
DSAVE /H0 /H1 >filename
This gives me a really huge file (filename).
Then I can go back and edit for the actual transfer.

Paul