Re: new PC catch-22

John Devereux wrote:

Mike Monett <No@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
<SNIP>

Thanks for the good info, John. I'm already running Eagle on Suse
with excellent results, and starting to think it might be time to
convert everything else over to Linux.

How do you back up your system in case of hard disk failure? Is
there an equivalent to XCOPY32?


Yes, several. The general command is "copy", but I like the "rsync"
command, this can be used between different computers too.

e.g. rsync -a /source /destination

does a local copy and

rsync -a /source 192.168.0.2:/destination

copies to a remote machine.

There are lots of flags and options to say what is copied and how. In
general only changed files get physically transferred so it is very
efficient.


I have something to say about Linux., The little i have played with it really impressed me when i transferred a large jpeg 1.2 Meg in size to the Floppy. It wrote so fast to the floppy that i was very skeptical as
to it's fitness when completed. I popped out the floppy and then reloaded that same file in a MS-Windows machine. It took 10 times longer
to read it and that isn't no exaggeration, with 0 defects on the read.
That in it self, really gave me a thumbs up. It seems that i always had to pop in DOS mode to use the verify command to make sure the floppy's data was valid in a Windows machine. Many times, Windows would
completely either miss a sector or simply write all FF's or 00's to a
sector. In DOS mode, it never seem to do this. And this is in various
Window machines i have found this to be true. when i say DOS mode i mean
either in Real DOS or a windows DOS box.
Thanks Microshaft!, you caused me lots of grief in the past!




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