Hi Ian,
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000, at 09:10 PM, you wrote:
>
> > >Did you ever do a backup of your programs and packages from your
>
> > Short answer, no. I have a zip drive but I don't know of any convenient
> > way of backing up to zip disks initially or incrementally later on. Does
> > anyone know how to?
>
> I don't do what you might call "professional" backups :) but I do use
> Zip disks. I have tried various programs to back up data incrementally
> or in some other organised way and have despaired of all of them. :-/
> What I do now is try to organise my harddrive a bit so the data which
> is likely to change is more readily accessible. Things which are
> "valuable" I simply regularly copy over to a single Zip disk. Other
> changed data I could live with being some weeks out of date (email,
> etc) I just copy in great chunks (whole directory trees) to a
> compressing filesystem like XFH mounted on other Zips. A complete
> system copy was made initially, of course.
>
> Since my Zip drive is not bootable, being attached to a Squirrel, and
> the above method requires a minimal system to recover from, I created
> an emergency boot floppy too. Primarily this was to ensure the
> mountfiles for the ZIP were available.
>
> Please note that the above method is purely my way of doing it which I
> have found to have the best hassle to results ratio. There are many
> other ways. If you have a large drive, lots of important data you
> want backed up on a regular basis, or rapid recovery, this casual
> aproach is probably not a good idea. Personally, I don't want to
> allocate a few hours per week to regular backup runs.
>
> BTW, if you have PFS it is also handy to use it with Zips, the
> transfer rate goes up enormously over FFS. Much more noticable than a
> harddrive.
>
> > ago. Incidentally its unbelievable how flaky the whole system has become
> > now - programs that worked fine are now crashing (mostly 8000000B
> > errors).
>
> FPU emulator error. This one is typical of stack overflows. You could
> check which patches you are running, and whether there are newer
> versions. Also MUI mcc's. Running something like MuGuardianAngel for a
> little while may help to pinpoint the problems.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ian
> ===
>
Even though all this talk about backing up and Zip disks, etc.,
may appear OT, (not to you, Ian) I think that if we do not,
occasionally go through a complete discussion of backing up our
stuff, we are doing each other and ourselves, a disservice. By
comparing notes, here, we can determine what the best way is to
maintain our system, once we have installed and are using programs,
such as V.
Ian, I am very, very glad you told all how you do your backup.
I wonder how many Amigans realize that even though the Squirrel
says it is a SCSI hard drive controller, it should not be mistaken
for an internal fixed hard disk drive, nor any drive run off a SCSI
card insered into the belly of the A1200? The only other Amigans
who might appreciate what you have to do are those who use the
A600. Why? These are the only two Amigas with built-in PCMCIA
buses. The Squirrel operates through the PCMCIA bus, therefore,
any disk drive, attached to it, is not directly connected to the
Amiga's OS, unlike a disk drive attached to a SCSI card in the
belly of the computer (either opening and insering inside the com-
puter, or, through the "trap door") which is directly connect to
the system's OS. The result: you *must* use a floppy first, before
the hard drive can be accessed.
Anyway, if anyone needs details, they should either speak or
write to someone who uses an A1200 or A600.
'til next time.
Julian.
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