[Coco] Backing up a HD to an SD

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Try DSAVE -t /ND >/d2/dsave.s or where ever and look at the generated script. 

I never in my last years piped DSAVE to a shell. Too often I needed to edit it after an error to restart just after the error (Not the error we are discussing perhaps). 

>> The makdir command may throw some errors if a directory already exist, but the process does not abort, try it.

It would be interesting to compare DSAVE generated scripts with and without the "-t" parameter. That would pin down what it does for sure.

Do we have OSK manuals on line. That was the model for the addition.

"I'm feeling ignorant" is not your problem as so many of the commands are not documented at all other than they exist.

The person who worked on DSAVE was not the person who worked on MAKDIR. Maybe 

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Ramsower" <georgera at gvtc.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Backing up a HD to an SD


> 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?
>  Darn, I feel stupid right now. I thought I used to know quite a lot 
> about this OS and now, I'm feeling ignorant.
> 
> George R