Date   : Mon, 18 Jan 1999 20:25:45 +0000 (GMT)
From   : "Andrew Benham" <adsb@...>
Subject: Backup BBC Hard Disk to PC ??

Having turned the hard disc on my BBC Master on for the first time
in years, and discovered some verify errors, I reckon I ought to
back it up before I go too much further.

When I used to operate the hard disk more regularly, I used to back
it up by copying the appropriate number of sectors onto floppy disks.
This was always rather fraught, and caused difficulties when restoring
because one had to sort out the first few sectors if reformatting had
changed the usable disk size.

It struck me the other day that the BBC Master with its 20M hard
disk is sitting next to a PC with a 6.4G disk, which could hold a
20M backup image and not notice it!

Has anyone come up with a clever scheme to backup a BBC hard disk
to a PC ??

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