It's too bad there's so little functional provision for backups under the
currently popular OS'.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Lane <kyrrin_at_bluefeathertech.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 9:40 PM
Subject: D'oh! Backup issue solved
> <arrgh> Sometimes, the best answers are the most obvious.
>
> You may remember that, not long ago, I posted a blurb about having trouble
> backing up an old MFM drive in a 1990-vintage datascope. Specifically,
that
> it's non-DOS format and on a proprietary controller.
>
> As I was copying the manuals for a different datascope this afternoon, the
> answer hit me like a lightning bolt, prompted by noticing that the pages I
> was copying at the time had to do with backing up the hard drive in a
> Digilog unit. "Maybe" I mused "the Interview 7500 has the same
capability."
>
> Well, guess what? It did! It was not obvious because it was labeled "Copy
> Disk" instead of "Backup hard drive," but it most definitely allowed
> selecting the hard drive as the source and the floppy as the destination.
>
> Three 1.44 meg floppies later, I not only had a backup copy of the
> datascope's OS, but I also had it archived with Teledisk into long-term
> storage.
>
> The moral of the story is: If you run into a hard-drive operated
> datascope, or any other special device that has its own drive, never
assume
> that said device has no backup routine of its very own! ;-)
>
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
> http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin_at_bluefeathertech.com
> Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 (Extra class as of June-2K)
> "Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our
> own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
>
>
Received on Fri Sep 01 2000 - 08:42:42 BST