Re: Norton Ghost type program for IIgs?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Jason Whorton asked:

>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.

Disk-to-disk backup is the _only_ way to go for large disk drives.

And the backup software is as simple as a full file copy (a little slow,
but automatically defragmenting), or a full volume copy (much faster,
but preserves whatever fragmentation exists).

Apple utilities provide file copy capability, but I prefer ProSel's Volume
Copy utility--and it's now freeware.

Either method takes all the pain out of backing up.  ;-)

-michael

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