Re: Which is recommended?

[bobryan9@my-deja.com]

In article <050720001929580170%iigs_deletethis@bytebucket.com>,
  "Steven M. Fish" <iigs_deletethis@bytebucket.com> wrote:
>
> Since the FocusHD in my GS is 60M and the floppies are 800K, I was
> wondering what the best method would be for backing up what's on my
HD.
> Actually, only about 15-20M is currently being used, so that makes
> things much easier.  I guess I'm wondering if there's a good automatic
> way of backing things up.
>

1)Get a Zip drive and a SCSI card
2)Copy the files one by one onto 3.5 (yikes!)
3)Shrink the files and copy em 1 by 1 (yikes again!)
4)Maybe HardPressed will let you back up to 3.5?  (not even sure that
it will do backups, but I thought I read that it would)
5)Get another Focus and copy the files
6)Copy the 20 megabytes that you have filled to the end of the drive.
If your copy that you use goes bad, use ProSEL and fix it.
7)Get a SCSI card and a tape backup system (never tried it)
8)There is a backup program that comes with the system disks.  I don't
know what the program does.

> And as for making the startup disk, is there a quick a dirty way of
> doing that too?
>

A Prodos startup disk?  Format a disk from the finder (format it
prodos), copy the PRODOS file onto the disk.  You might want
BASIC.SYSTEM too.

A GSOS startup disk?  Copy your old one, download the archived disk
image from apple (other sites have more useable formats)...Or you could
copy all the necessary files from the hard drive onto a formatted
disk.  Nathan Mates' faq used to have a list of files that you
absolutely need to start up GSOS (I think it did, I know that other
people take care of and UPDATE the faq now, but I haven't been back to
that section)

Bob


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