Short: Backup RDB along with data before it, r/w device images Author: Tadek Knapik Uploader: Tadek Knapik Type: disk/misc This program lets you backup your RigidDiskBlock along with possible data placed before it. This means it will help you when you, like me, have an Amiga hard disk with a fully-qualified pc-partition. On block 0 there is pc MBR (Master Boot Record), and Amiga RDB starts on block 3. Rigids by default saves to a file all data from block 0 to the end of RDB data. And it can restore it, if course :) It can also backup only RDB, or start backup at specified offset. When restoring, default action is to write data from the file exactly to where it was on the disk. But you can choose to write only RDB at specified offset as well. Since v1.1 it can also read/write from/to a file any amount of data directly interfacing the device. You just specify start block, number of blocks and a filename. I wrote it because I hadn't found any shell proggy to do it, and it is quite related (in my case, at least) to this RDB/MBR stuff. All such programs known to me were using DOS devices (eg. DH0:, PCC:) instead of exec's, which makes some cases hopeless. Or they use GUI and make easy (for a programmer) task of writing several blocks great time-consuming fun. Without a chance to automate it. Still considered beta, because I hadn't too many volounteers for betatesting :)) Tadek Knapik Snail-mail: ul. Duza Gora 35/88 30-857 Cracow Poland ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 16704 8276 50.4% 22-Jun-98 21:05:18 +Rigids 21533 5296 75.4% 22-Jun-98 21:05:18 +Rigids.c 9227 4082 55.7% 22-Jun-98 21:05:18 +Rigids.doc -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 47464 17654 62.8% 24-Jun-98 05:01:32 3 files