Which backup program is this?

From: Mark <mark_k_at_iname.com>
Date: Wed May 19 12:37:33 1999

Hi,

Some time ago I posted about an old Sony 650MB 5.25" MO drive that I acquired.
I have now cleaned all the disks, and it seems to be working fine.

Anyway, most of the disks that came with the drive contain old backups. I'm not
sure which backup program was used to create the backups. I would like to find
out, because hopefully then I can snoop through them more easily than having
to use a disk editor. There seems to be various source code and other things
on there.

In the hope that someone here can point me in the right direction, here is some
brief info about the backups.

The backup program probably ran under OS/2.

Sectors 0 to 3 inclusive contain:
  "MDIELS4" in ASCII
  25 zero bytes
  a date in ASCII, e.g. "Tue Jan 12 08:48:26 1993"
  0x0a, 0x00
  "mondayb" in ASCII (this may be some backup ID assigned by the operator)
  the remainder of sectors 0-3 are all zero bytes

Sector 4 begins with "MDIVOLID" in ASCII.

The next significant thing is at start of sector 256:
   0xEB, 0x3C, 0x90
   "MDI 4.0" in ASCII.


Any ideas?


-- Mark
Received on Wed May 19 1999 - 12:37:33 BST