Re: Multi-part disk images.

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Payton Byrd wrote:
> On Feb 19, 7:46 am, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 19, 2:53 am, Payton Byrd <plb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Are there any disk image formats for the A2 that support multiple
> > > files?  I want to be able to create a disk image of a 32MB partition
> > > directly on the A2 and store the disk image sections on multiple
> > > media.  I know removable media and CiderPress make this redundant, but
> > > I still think it's a cool idea.  Plus, you could backup a partition to
> > > 40 800k floppies, which is somewhat realistic. :)
> >
> > Do you mean like Shrinkit?http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/apple2/faq/10-002-What-are-ShrinkIt-SHK-f...
>
>
> ShrinkIt isn't what I'm looking for.  I want to make sector-by-sector
> copies of the drives, not make a loose file archive.

Then the block copy will only be usable if completely restored
to a contiguous volume--much less useful than a "browseable"
archive of files.  Restoring will take as long as backing up.

BTW, back when the only way I had to backup my Vulcan was to 800KB
floppies, it *never* got backed up--way too much work!

-michael

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