Frank Sevier
07/29/2009 3:40 PM
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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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