Re: What's your favorite Hard Drive Backup device??

["Phil Abel" <phil_nonospam_abel@nonospam_prodigy_nonospam.net>]

Agreed on the extra HD strategy.  If you are a little patient you can
eventually find and win a 1-2GB 50-pin SCSI disk on ebay for under $15
shipped (under $10 if you are good/lucky).  Hopefully you can find one with
light use that is not a "server pull".  Just install the backup drive as
part of your normal SCSI chain.  When you want to back up, power up that
disk.  Otherwise just leave it turned off and it won't interfere with
anything.  Or if you are really into the disaster recovery thing and want an
"off site copy", just put the backup drive in a compact SCSI case and leave
it in your desk at work or something.  Unless both your house and office
burn down at the same time, you should be in good shape!

Here is what I will usually do... I will just format the backup drive as a
big HFS partition.  Say I am backing up partitions "Vol1", "Vol2" and
"Vol3".  I will just create folders on the "Backup" drive called
"Backup:Vol1", "Backup:Vol2" and "Backup:Vol3".  Then I will open up the
"Vol1" partition itself on the primary drive, do a select all, then drag
everything to the "Backup:Vol1" folder.  Then go about your business while
it copies all the files... don't have to check it every x min to see if you
need to swap a tape, etc.

Also it might not hurt to put one ProDOS partition on the backup drive and
copy ProDOS and GS/OS (with SCSI driver and HFS FST) over to it.  That way,
you can just boot off your backup drive if you lose your primary drive and
you can start recovering your primary drive immediately.

"Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net> wrote in message
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> "Stephen Hartz" <SHartz@columbus.rr.com> wrote in message
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> > Looking to get a new backup device for my IIGS. I want to do a disk-->
> disk
> > backup from my hard drive and Iomega partitions to partitions on a
'large
> '
> > removable storage device. The HD partitions are 32,32,32,111 and the Zip
> is
> > 32,32,32.  What do you like for this purpose?  Why?
> >
> >
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> I'd use another hard disk.  You've got 300 megs there, so even a 1 gig
drive
> would be plenty.  They are cheap, fast,  convenient, and readily
available.
> You could backup using your IIgs to copy partitions to a second external
> drive.  Slow, but it would work.
> Or maybe an older Mac. Connect the drives externally, and use the Mac to
> make archives or burn to CD.  For example, I've got a Mac Color Classic
with
> the Mystic upgrade (040 cpu).  That can access ProDos partitions, and I've
> got an external SCSI CD burner for it.
> -Paul
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