I have set up freesco 0.3.3 on a hard disk. Can I just boot from a dos floppy disk and copy everything in /router over to another hard drive ? Yes
It is easiest with “xcopy”, if perl is not installed then it is as simple as that, don't forget the files in the root directory as well as the router directory. Such as the –linux-.— file
However if you have perl installed the directory structure is to long for xcopy to handle and it will fail.
Well with perl installed it does complicate things a LOT. Here is how I did it the last time :
copy c:\*.* d:\ mkdir d:\router copy c:\router\*.* d:\router\
mkdir /backup mount -t umsdos /dev/hdb1 /backup
cp-rf /mnt/bootdev/router /backup/router
sync sync umount /backup
A very nifty little tool that fits on a floppy.
I boot my FREESCO with a win9x bootdisk, once booted I put the PQDI flop in and run the prog. The only drawback is that this prog makes a complete image of the complete drive (or partition) you want to backup. And when you want to put back the backup, it will completely restore the complete drive (or partition) as it was when you backed it up.
Personally, I prefer freeware to do that, and Partimage ( http://www.partimage.org ) fits perfectly in my needs. You can use it stand alone (booting from floppies or CD) or booting from a knoppix CD, which is what I use. One of the biggest advantages is that you can backup/restore all your data to another PC in the network! (=no need to 2nd HDD, CD-RW, etc…) Anyway, I miss some tool to do online backups, i.e. to be able to backup data without having to put offline your router.