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This article is from the 3b1 computers FAQ, by John B. Bunch with numerous contributions by others.

4.1. How do I restore from a backup when one of the floppies is bad?

Get the public domain program called "afio". It's available in the OSU archives. It supports reading the floppy disk backup set, and will ignore errors and recover when it finds the next cpio ASCII header if you use the "-k" option. The backup set must be written using cpio and the "-c" option must have been used during the writing of the diskettes.

The syntax for afio to restore is:

	# cd /
	# afio -ivk /dev/rfp021
		  ^ use the k option to allow dealing with
		    corrupted archives

 

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