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How do you properly backup a bootable floppy onto another floppy?

You have to clone it, not just copy the files, as you need the boot sector too. You can do it in Linux with dd, or download some freeware from the DOS days (Diskcopy?).
 
what os - assuming dos/windows at command line try:

diskcopy a: a: (assuming a: is the drive your source is in)

You will have to swap the disk out. Your a and b drives are probably different formats - to diskcopy the disks must be same format.

You can use windows and just chose the same drive for source and destination.
 
In "My Computer" or "Windows Explorer", highlight the "A" drive, right-click, choose "copy disk", select the same drive as the destination drive. Nothing special needed for a botable floppy.
 
If you might want to make future copies of the same disk, save it to an image file first. WinImage is good for that but it's shareware. There are freeware image file creators though that are dedicated to floppies.
 
I just download new images from bootdisk.com... they have a boot disk for every scenario I ever had...
 
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