On 23 Oct 2011, Todd Vargo wrote:
> You did not indicate how many zip disks you have available.
7 zip disks and a bit over 500MB data, so no real limit in
that regard.
> Do not try to create a backup using a single zip command.
> Instead, figure out the size of each directory on the root
> and back them up separately in groups of 100mb.
A lot of the data is small files in different directories and
I couldn't think of an easy way to work out 100MB groups of
these files using DOS (the laptop isn't running anything
else).
> It's DOS 5 so the root only holds 255 entries but most
> people do not have that much on the root.
The DOS 5 manual states that the limit is 512 for directories
in the root (less for floppies), however it was sixty
directories when DOS decided it wouldn't let me write any more
in the root and I'm definitely on DOS 5. Not that it matters
much.