Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II Reference Manual page 115

UTILITY PROGRAMS
BACKUP
Duplicate a Diskette
BACKUP source TO destination {options}
source
and
destination
are drive specifications. If omitted,
TRSDOS
will prompt you to specify the source and destination
drives.
{} if no options are given,
BACKUP
use defaults for all the options.
The defaults are described below. .
options
may be any combination of the following:
pw", source-password tells
TRSDOS
the master password of the .
source diskette.
TRSDOS
will not duplicate a diskette unless you
give the correct password. Ifthis option is omitted,
TRSDOS
will
assume the password is
PASSWORD. . .
NEW",
dest-password
tells
TRSDOS
the password to assign to the
destination diskette. The master password allows access to all
user files via the
PROT
command, as well as full
BACKUP
privileges. If omitted,
TRSDOS
will use the password of the source
diskette.
ID '"
diskette-name tells
TRSDOS
the diskette name to assign to the
destination diskette. If omitted,
TRSDOS
will use the diskette
name of the source diskette.
~Yt'e~~~~::~s~~r~~t~~~~~':;~~~::~i~~~).lf
omitted, all files will
ASS
tells
TRSDOS
not to prompt the operator for diskette
information, butto use the information found on the source
diskette. If this option is used,
TRSDOS
will overwrite data on the
destination diskette without first warning the operator. If this . .
option is omitted, the operator may be prompted several times.
PROMPT
tells
TRSDOS
to prompt the user before each
non~system
file is copied, allowing aselecfive backup. If
PROMPT
is omit
TRSDOS
will copy all files without prompting.
NOAUTO
tells
TRSDOS
not to copy the
AUTO
command input (if any).
If omitted,
TRSDOS
will copy any
AUTO
command input. (See·
AUTO.) .
This utility allows you to duplicate some or all of the files on a system or data
diskette. The destination diskette must already be formatted.
Any two drives may be used for source and destination diskettes. or a single drive
may be used. In this latter case,
TRSDOS
will prompt you to swap source and
destination diskettes several times during the backup process.
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