Hi Karen, > because I do a great deal of work from this machine, years worth of > data, audio production projects and the like I desire a method to back > up both of my dos drives safely that preserves the data. not just > files, entire drives. In this case, although they are not full this
What would be wrong with XCOPY-ing the files, of course preserving the timestamps? > means two 20 gig drives. Yes I realize 3 gig is not large any more, but > I am not sure the largest drive capacitor for ms dos 7.1 which I run. I > am guessing indeed getting a very large external drive and creating > partitions to represent my backup drive storage space. Disk images are just that - you would have to restore them 1:1 to a partition or in the worst case disk of the same size, leaving the rest unused and not having easy access to the files inside the image. Also, the images tend to be larger than 2 or 4 gb, which limits the possibilities for storing them on old filesystems such as pre-NTFS USB sticks and so on. While 3 GB are not much data, 20 GB already are annoying for USB 2.0 Also, restoring disk or partition images in a way that they still boot might also take extra work, see above. Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
