Ok, I have a DOS problem....

[styrty]

This is probably cake for most of you guys to figure out but I figured I needed some different opinions:

We're running a DOS program on a Lantastic network and recently our tape backup went down. Of course, nobody sells anything remotely like this backup anymore so our solution is to take an external harddrive (that connects through the parallel port) and make backups from one harddrive to the other.

Problem is, I haven't worked in DOS for years and I'm pretty much a newbie at this point. We backup every single day and I need to figure out a way to make a simple program that will allow us to backup our D: drive to our external E: drive through DOS.
We have a 1.2 gig external and I figured that it can hold a weeks worth of backups before it's filled up. Does anyone know of a way I can make it easy for our manager to backup each day, and when the harddrive is full, backup over the existing files starting with the oldest first and so on? It needs to be simple enough to where he can just do the same procedure everyday without having to do something different one day and then change it up when the harddrive is full. Any ideas?

 

[Willoughbyva]

I am not sure, but if it is a 1.2 gig drive I would assume that it is pretty old. Old hard drives like to fail. If it fails then you are out of a whole weeks worth of backups. Since it is on a network can you backup to different network drives and then burn to cdr? Can you add a second hard drive to the machine and use something like ghost to save the hd partition to the slave drive?

 

[Bleep]

I would put a CD burner in a machine and use that for backup. There are plenty of free programs out there to do that. I think that most of the Nero programs that come with most new burners have that built in.

Bleep