Re: Norton Ghost type program for IIgs?

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

Hello.  Whenever I get my IIgs up and going, I want to copy one or all
partitions to a different hard disk drive.  If the first hard drive
physically fails, I can just get the system to boot from the second hard
disk drive.  I am not wanting to get into images.  I have several small SCSI
drives, so cost is not an issue.  I am good at PC's, so termination and SCSI
ID's are not a problem.  I just suck at Apple II's and Mac's.

Thank you,
Jason Whorton



"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Mitchell Spector wrote:
>
> >"Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>"Mitchell Spector" <mitch2gs@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >>>     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).
> >>
> >>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???
> >
> >    Sounds like you're writing the output file to a ProDOS partition. As
I
> >mentioned above, ProDOS cannot handle ANY file that is larger than
> >16 megabytes. It's not surprising people forget that in a day where
> >it's not unusual for a single sound or image file to be that large. :)
> >
> >    Make sure you're writing the '2MG' file to an HFS partition with
> >enough free space.
> >
> >>...maybe I don't have the latest version of Asimov???
> >
> >    Doubt it, see above. In any case, I don't believe there were ever
> >more than two public releases of Asimov: v1.0 which is ProDOS-8
> >based, and v2.0 which is GS/OS based.
>
> Although this topic came up in the context of a Norton "Ghost"-like
> backup strategy, the original poster clearly wanted a way to back
> up one disk drive to another.
>
> This is most easily and conveniently achieved by backing up a
> 32MB partition to another 32MB partition (on another disk, for
> best safety).  This makes the "backup" partition an exact copy
> of the original, which is bootable (if the original was) and browsable
> like any other volume with all standard software.
>
> Backing up to a compressed image is much less convenient in
> the event, say, that the original drive fails, so that there is no
> place to restore to.  It also is much harder to restore individual
> files without special restore software, as opposed to any file
> copy program that you like.
>
> In this day of even a _very small_ hard disk being at leasr 240MB,
> there is no need or justification for using anything other than a full
> partition (volume) backup.
>
> -michael
>
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