looking for windows (w2k) backup solution

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Brian Henning wrote:

> What?  I always copy the nullfile exe to C:\, run it there in a command 
> shell, and it creates its temp file in the current working directory, C:\.

ah, well not knowing what I was doing, I put nullfile in the 
PATH which included \winnt\system32. Sounded like a good 
idea at the time.

> The abort behavior is useful for FAT filesystems.  Run nullfile until it 
> error-terminates (when the FAT says "I can't make this file any bigger"). 
> The DUMMY.??? stays, so you can run nullfile again iteratively until all the 
> free space is used up, then del DUMMY.*

got it.

> Sure.  No reason why my method wouldn't work by copying the exe to a 
> system-cleaned temp directory.

OK

> Whatever makes you feel the most comfortable.  nullfile works without the 
> cygwin layer (is there a native [i.e. not requiring cyg] dd for windows?

don't know, sorry

Joe
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