Re: Norton Ghost type program for IIgs?

["Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.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
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> "Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com> wrote:
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> >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.
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>     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).
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>     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.
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> Mitchell Spector
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