Re: How to transfer bucketloads of IIGS stuff

[frankc <frankc@srv.net>]

colinjapan@my-deja.com wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> I figured that it was high time I make a backup of my childhood
> computer memories, and I need your advice. I'm planning on transferring
> my entire Apple IIGS library -- something ungodly, like 500-1000 disks -
> - to a medium that's more stable than a floppy. I'm probably going to
> go with Bernie ][ and buy a low-end PowerPC... but:
>
> How do I build disk images and get them over to another machine? I have
> a 400MB SCSI drive on my IIGS. I'd love to find a cheap/easy way to
> dump ALL of those disks to disk image files, then transfer them to a
> place where I can just burn a CD of everything.
>
> Do I have to use a Mac as the middleman? Is there any software I can
> turn to?
>
> Please let me know -- I'm going back to the States for a month, and
> backing up my library is my number-one goal. Thanks so much!
>
> Colin
> colin@DONTSPAMMEpcgamer.com
>
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What file systems are you using?  Is all your data on an HFS or a Prodos
partition?
You should be able to hook it up to a Mac or and pull the data.  Another
option, if the
data is on HFS, is to hook it up to a Linux system and pull the data that
way.  The
newer kernels natively support HFS.  There is also a project underway to
create
a Prodos fs interface for Linux as well.  I cannot remember the site, but a
quick
search for "Prodos filesystem" AND "Linux" should turn it up.  So in the
future
if you have SCSI and IDE drives that have these partitions on them you
should be
able to transfer data under Linux.