> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Sevier [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:41 PM
> To: qnx4-community
> Subject: QNX backup imaging?
> 
> We are a silicon wafer manufacturing facility that has equipment
> controlled by computers running QNX. The computers are custom built and
> the only external storage medium available is a floppy drive (no CD
> burner, serial, parallel, or USB ports). The vendor did not provide any
> installation disks for QNX or any of the software on the computers.
> They want us to call them for disaster recovery or buy entire computers
> with the software already installed. I'd like to prepare for hard drive
> failures by making our own backup images like I do with our Windows
> computers. I've read that software like Norton Ghost cannot be used
> with QNX. I also tried PartImage but it doesn't recognize the QNX
> filesystem. Is there a way to make backup images to a reasonable
> quantity of floppy disks? The hard drives only contain around 124Mb of
> data. I have read the "Making Backups" document on the QNX site and
> experimented with this command: pax -w -x ustar /home | freeze | vol -w
> /dev/fd0...  but I'm no

You probably aren't root, which is needed to write to /dev/fd0.  Backup up to a floppy create the problem of restore.

>  t!
>  being able to write to a formatted and initialized floppy. I get
> permission error or something like that. One last thing... I could also
> temporarily remove the hard drives and put them into another computer
> running QNX with the normal storage mediums if that would facilitate
> things. Thanks.

Yes that could be simple.  Given the freeze command I assume you are using qnx4?  That can be a bit tricky to backup 
because of the license.  Check out http://www.openqnx.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=5672&highlight=backup
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Rather than trying to copy the hard disks to floppy, I would rather
connect the hard drive to a PC running QNX4 and then copy the entire
hard drive to a directory on the host machine. If you have multiple QNX4
boxes, then you can copy the hard drive of each box to a separate
directory on your host machine.


-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Sevier [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:41 PM
To: qnx4-community
Subject: QNX backup imaging?

We are a silicon wafer manufacturing facility that has equipment
controlled by computers running QNX. The computers are custom built and
the only external storage medium available is a floppy drive (no CD
burner, serial, parallel, or USB ports). The vendor did not provide any
installation disks for QNX or any of the software on the computers. They
want us to call them for disaster recovery or buy entire computers with
the software already installed. I'd like to prepare for hard drive
failures by making our own backup images like I do with our Windows
computers. I've read that software like Norton Ghost cannot be used with
QNX. I also tried PartImage but it doesn't recognize the QNX filesystem.
Is there a way to make backup images to a reasonable quantity of floppy
disks? The hard drives only contain around 124Mb of data. I have read
the "Making Backups" document on the QNX site and experimented with this
command: pax -w -x ustar /home | freeze | vol -w /dev/fd0...  but I'm
not being able to write to a formatted and initialized floppy. I get
permission error or something like that. One last thing... I could also
temporarily remove the hard drives and put them into another computer
running QNX with the normal storage mediums if that would facilitate
things. Thanks.



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