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AND run a script to pull the play count and EQ settings from RAM to a file,
Minor semantic correction, you'd be grabbing those things from the scratch partition, not from RAM.
Things you need to think about when doing this:
1. Would need to work gracefully with either one disk drive or two.
2. Would need to work gracefully whether the player used a flat FID structure, or a FIDsifted structure.
3. Would also need a corresponding RESTORE utility. (A backup is no good if you can't restore it.)
4. If you could figure out how to trim it down to one-button operation, I think there's some kind of a bounty you'd need to arrange to collect from tanstaafl.
Truth is, these days, on Mk2 players with Hijack installed, it's theoretically possible (I think) to do all of this stuff with a cleverly written MS-DOS batch file. The only part that might not be do-able with the DOS FTP program is the "incremental" part of the backup you described. For that you need something like Rsync, and that requires a cygwin install on Windows PCs, if I recall correctly.
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