Workbench back to disk

Hello,

Hope someone on here knows. I am playing with my own uae workbench 3.1 based with my own likings, ex daemontool instead of.. learning the hard work myself. Much fun once the basics are there :):)

Get it on a real machine: no problem.:thumbsup:

But I would like to know if this is possible with some "tool" to do the fiction below?

"take hd0: to FDO: -diskspan - format -compresslevel=high"

meaning putting it on multiple floppy's compressed highly once it is on a real amiga..


* I don't want to know how to transfer, I wan't to know how to put it from a real amiga on flop and deploy it on let's say an unexpanded A600, taken that my workbench does not load to much off shelf. (knowing about the screen format, memory etc...)

and vice a versa :whistle:

... So I have my own home brewn install even if it is an old unexpanded amiga? Put disk in with tool on, create partition and dump from the flops, reboot and voila?

Better backup the HD in a soulless peecee using WinUAE: faster.

Also when you are done but the HD back to the Amiga. New floppy disks are very unreliable.

You would need to use an archiver to span a backup across multiple floppy disks. There were many existing back in the day for the Amiga so do a search on Aminet to see what you can find.

Normally for this process you would to make a single large compressed file containing the whole backup within it, then using splitting utilities, break it down into compression parts the size of a floppy disk.

This method is still commonly seen in use within the PC scene releases where you might have a multi part zip or rar named file.rar, file.001, file.002. It's the same principle, with each part the size of a floppy disk, CD, or new group message file size limits. Making it easier to distribute.

An alternative would be one of the HD backup programs that exist for the Amiga. I've not used one of those in years so can't think what any were called. Quarterback tools may of contained one.

Quarterback Tools is one of them, that's for sure.

Thanks a lot for answering.

Yes I know the flops are not super reliable, but hey, it's also the idea not needing to open up a case bla bla, probably only need 4 flops at a zip compression level.

I am a little afraid that the tools don't run from disks, not sure, will have a go, have quarterback on one machine. aminet was not my friend for a cli command yesterday.

The other route is I saw some linux porting to amiga, so I'll see if the DD TAR and ZIP or BZIP2 is ported yet. Then partition and all get's cloned to.. Then only need to find out how to split them.

Ok, there is a tool ABACKUP on aminet. It does back up to floppy disk.

I copied the wb31 adf to another adf file, and removed a lot of directories on it, and just moved the main abackup file + icon to the floppy, yup still booting workbench with backup program :roll: So that makes it complete.

The only mistake I made I removed the printers dir to, and abackup may call on it, but don't care.

I will write the adf backups and see if restoring on an unexpanded amiga goes along :whistle:

If you have problems with ABACKUP, Quarterback is also very good. ;)

Kin

Thanks,

I realise, that it's not the good way, the compression level is to low. Just taking the hdf in winblows and put it in zip is much smaller.

Looking at aminet from time to time to find best solution.

just another alternative :
you wanted to split up an archive.. there are some tools to do so
I've previously used hjsplitter, a simple google turned up this site : http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/

if you make a compression first using LHA, then use split on the pc, copy to floppy, and join on the amiga (make sure the files are in the right order)

lot of slave work, but I guess this is the answer to your questions, though not as good a solution as perhaps some of the previous posts ;-)

@ jvdbossc

If you don't have Quarterback, PM me. ;)

Kin