Re: Norton Ghost type program for IIgs?

["Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com>]

Hello and thanks for the information.  I re-read the manual and it does say
it can copy hard drive to hard drive, but then of course I noticed that I
only have the 5.25" disk and not the 3.5" disk.  I went to the Apple site
and it says:

Name:              Apple II SCSI Utilities
Version:           1.1
Date Released:     February 19, 1990
Description:       SCSI Utilities disk for the Apple II

The software posted here is available in two formats:

1.)  A Macintosh self-extracting archive (.sea) of a Disk Copy 800K ProDOS
disk image.  To use, download, double-click the downloaded file (this
decompresses it), and use Disk Copy to create a disk.

Disk Copy can be found in the Utilities folder posted here.

2.)  An Apple IIGS ShrinkIt archive in Binary II format.  To use, download
and use ShrinkIt to decompress and create a disk.

Shrinkit can be found in the Apple II Supplemental folder posted here.



Of course, I am caught in the same Catch-22 as everyone else trying to get a
IIgs up and going, no full install of GS/OS.  :-(

Thanks,
Jason Whorton




"Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Nelw9.30$Ad.6946944@news2.randori.com...
> Whenever I try to make a 2mg image of a prodos hard disk partition, it
will
> get partially through, then error out with an overflow error...maybe I
don't
> have the latest version of Asimov???
>
>
> "Mitchell Spector" <mitch2gs@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> 3dc1b33f.3937963@news.golden.net">news:3dc1b33f.3937963@news.golden.net...
> > "Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com> wrote:
> >
> > >Hello.  Is there a program for the IIgs that is similar to Norton Ghost
> for
> > >the PC?  If you are not familiar with Norton Ghost, it allows a disk to
> disk
> > >copy, or a partition to partition copy.  It is run from a DOS bootable
> > >floppy disk  I read my Apple High-Speed SCSI Card manual, and it states
> that
> > >the utility disk can back it up to floppies.  It didn't mention two
hard
> > >drives.  I am guessing that would have been insanely expensive ten
years
> > >ago.  I am slowly but surely getting my IIgs system up and going.  When
I
> do
> > >get it up and going, one thing I want is to have two seperate hard disk
> > >drives.  I want the second one to be an exact copy of the first one in
> case
> > >the hard drive dies.  Thanks to everyone who has posted helpful
> information
> > >whether for me or others.  It helps all of us.
> >
> >     I can think of at least two or three ways of accomplishing this. The
> > first would be to use Ninjaforce's Asimov 2.0 program. It can create
> > a image copy of an entire partition (stored as a '2MG' file) then
restore
> > a byte for byte copy onto the same or a new partition. Typically you'll
> > require an HFS partition to store the '2MG' image file, as it'll exceed
> > the file limit size for ProDOS (16 MB).
> >
> >     The second method would be to use GSTape to make an image
> > copy, however this requires you have a SCSI tape drive and media.
> > I've made backup copies of all my partitions this way, though I don't
> > generally trust magnetic tape so I plan to burn 2MG images (created
> > with Asimov) to CDR or CDRW's using my PC. I can at least read
> > the CDR's on the IIgs side for restoring partitions.
> >
> >     Finally, and I may have the ONLY remaining copy of it, is a plug-in
> > ROM replacement for the RamFAST controller that does very fast
> > SCSI-to-SCSI partition copies. It was used by TMS Peripherals to
> > make mass copies of hardrives they sold (with the OS and IIgs
> > shareware pre-installed). If I can get ahold of an EPROM burner
> > I'd be glad to share copies of it, or at least dump a copy to disk.
> >
> > Mitchell Spector
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>