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Re: Need to extract Files from DOS Backup Archive to Linux



On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 12:33 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	After some Google searches that didn't turn up anything
> that looked like a positive hit, maybe somebody here can help.
> 
> 	DOS has a program called backup that will put your hard
> drive image on a series of floppies.  Each floppy is full until
> the last one and has 1 large file called backup001 through
> backupXXX depending upon how many there need to be.  There is
> also a file called control001 through X.
> 
> 	Is there a Linux utility that can read these and extract
> the files?

Hi,

I did find an app that sounds like what you want, dosrestore on this
page, http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/software/

From the info in this page, it sounds like the file format may depend on
with which version the backups were made, so it might not work.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=609142

If the dosrestore utility doesn't work, you should be able to use
DOSBox, or dosemu with FreeDOS, and msbackup.exe.

Hope this helps,

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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