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- DBACK.COM
-
- Ver. 1.1
-
- Eric Gans
- French Dept. UCLA
- Los Angeles, CA 90024
-
- Because unerasing on a hard disk is a delicate procedure (the
- FAT and part of the directory must be rewritten to disk), I have
- written DBACK.COM, which will back up the FAT and root directory of a
- (hard) disk on another (floppy) disk, and restore it in case
- catastrophe strikes. DBACK makes a read-only file called DBACK.DRx
- (x = backed up drive) in the root directory of the backup drive. For
- extra security, run DBACK before unerasing; since the backup file
- is written on another disk it won't disturb the unerase procedure.
-
- DBACK is also useful for general disk security purposes,
- especially for assembly-language programmers who are often a
- keystroke or two away from trashing their disk.
-
- Don't forget to copy DBACK.COM to a backup disk. If it is on
- a different diskette than DBACK.DRx, you will be able to change
- disks while running the program. Just remember that if you ever
- need DBACK to restore your hard disk directory you won't be able to
- find it there!
-