Backup doesn't work

On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 22:06:09 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2017-07-21 13:30, Doomsdrzej wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 10:51:15 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2017-07-21 10:33, Ken Blake wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 08:39:55 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:


Even if reformatting resolves the issue, IMO you'd be better off to buy
an external hard drive. Terabyte sized drives now sell for around $100,
more or less, depending on capacity.



Out of curiosity, I just checked on Amazon.com. A 1 TB external drive
sells for around $55.

Checking at The Source (Canada), 4TB to 8TB drives are priced at about
$30 to $40/terabyte. I recall when a 16KB memory module cost that much...

I have to admit that I am often fascinated by how much people were
able to do with a fraction of the computing power and storage we have
today.

Well, I did a machine-language programming course back in the day,
needed it to qualify for a minor promotion. Learned a lot, had fun,
never applied the knowledge. Wrote some quick'n'dirty thingies for
myself in BASIC and Comal, but their utility didn't last long.

I wrote some programs for the TRS-80 in Z80 assembly and
machine language.

On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 14:03:32 -0400, Paul
wrote:

In the example, I also tried to run the wbengine, but that
doesn't work from the command line. That's the thing I saw
running when I tried the normal GUI way. But it doesn't appear
you can start the wizard from there.

You can start the wizard from the command prompt this way:

sdclt /BLBBACKUPWIZARD

One problem with seeing commands for wbadmin, is the
documentation may be for the server version of Windows,
rather than the desktop version. For example, this
probably doesn't work.

wbadmin get versions -backuptarget:F:

Either following commands works, giving different results:

wbadmin get versions
wbadmin get versions -backuptarget:F:

I'm on Windows 10 Pro Creators Update.

--
Gianni

On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 17:45:54 +0200, Gianni Turri
wrote:

Either following commands works, giving different results:

wbadmin get versions
wbadmin get versions -backuptarget:F:

The first lists the Backup known to be executed by the pc,
the second lists the Backup eventually contained in the F: drive.

--
Gianni

Lucifer Morningstar wrote on 7/22/2017 8:32 AM:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 22:06:09 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2017-07-21 13:30, Doomsdrzej wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 10:51:15 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2017-07-21 10:33, Ken Blake wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 08:39:55 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:


Even if reformatting resolves the issue, IMO you'd be better off to buy
an external hard drive. Terabyte sized drives now sell for around $100,
more or less, depending on capacity.



Out of curiosity, I just checked on Amazon.com. A 1 TB external drive
sells for around $55.

Checking at The Source (Canada), 4TB to 8TB drives are priced at about
$30 to $40/terabyte. I recall when a 16KB memory module cost that much...

I have to admit that I am often fascinated by how much people were
able to do with a fraction of the computing power and storage we have
today.

Well, I did a machine-language programming course back in the day,
needed it to qualify for a minor promotion. Learned a lot, had fun,
never applied the knowledge. Wrote some quick'n'dirty thingies for
myself in BASIC and Comal, but their utility didn't last long.

I wrote some programs for the TRS-80 in Z80 assembly and
machine language.


I wrote programs for a Z80-based controller in Z80ASM. :-)

On 07/23/2017 07:10 PM, Alek wrote:

[snip]

I wrote programs for a Z80-based controller in Z80ASM. :-)


The computer I used in college had a Z80, but I had to write programs in
8080 assembly language (which the Z80 can run).

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without
evidence." -- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 07/23/2017 07:10 PM, Alek wrote:

[snip]

I wrote programs for a Z80-based controller in Z80ASM. :-)


The computer I used in college had a Z80, but I had to write programs in
8080 assembly language (which the Z80 can run).

I learned programming in high school. I wrote SPS (I think that's
right: "Symbolic Programming System"), the assembly language for the
IBM1620. I think we also used FORTRAN on that machine.

In college I used COMPASS, the assembly language for the CDC 6400 and
6600 machines. And lots of FORTRAN on those machines.

--
Tim Slattery
tim at risingdove dot com

On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:09:44 -0400, Tim Slattery
wrote:

Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 07/23/2017 07:10 PM, Alek wrote:

[snip]

I wrote programs for a Z80-based controller in Z80ASM. :-)


The computer I used in college had a Z80, but I had to write programs in
8080 assembly language (which the Z80 can run).

I learned programming in high school. I wrote SPS (I think that's
right: "Symbolic Programming System"), the assembly language for the
IBM1620.



I started programming on an IBM 1401, also using its assembler
language, also called SPS. I learned it after college in a private
school, then started coding professionally in 1962.

Ken Blake wrote on 7/25/2017 3:07 PM:
On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:09:44 -0400, Tim Slattery
wrote:

Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 07/23/2017 07:10 PM, Alek wrote:

[snip]

I wrote programs for a Z80-based controller in Z80ASM. :-)


The computer I used in college had a Z80, but I had to write programs in
8080 assembly language (which the Z80 can run).

I learned programming in high school. I wrote SPS (I think that's
right: "Symbolic Programming System"), the assembly language for the
IBM1620.



I started programming on an IBM 1401, also using its assembler
language, also called SPS. I learned it after college in a private
school, then started coding professionally in 1962.


I started programming in graduate school (1960) on an EAI 1631R. (Go
ahead and google it!)