I just want to share the pleasant Amiga-experience I just had. Yesterday the HD twice sounded a click and system froze. I schecked the drive using smartmontools and found it ok. Rechecked the cabling and (hopefully) nailed it: the power cable of the HD was a bit stressed (stretched), I used other conector on a longer cable and all seems well. Anyway, I decided to backup all the Amiga stuff:
OS is on separate partition, apps on another, one is for data and one for storage/grbage/etc. Archived everyrhing except the OS onto samba-mounted external HD hooked to linux Added the backup utilities I used (one partition is lha without compression, then bzip2, other two I tried with ABackup, so lha+bzip2+abackup joined the archives) Created SYS:backup Softlinked the archives dir to there Fired up AmiDVD, clicked AmigaOS4 and UBoot in bootable section, created the iso containing SYS: Launched rc-ftpd, copied he iso to the linux samba was crawling) and burned it Inserted the DVD into DVD drive and it boots into my WB (couple of complaints about read only media when trying to set the network up, but who cares!)
That's the way I like it! Kudos to Joerg (AmiDVD), to the OS and others that whoose software was involved!!!
Jack
"the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'. A. Schoenberg
Yes, it is really nice. I like to have backup CDs (yes, CDs, not DVDs) for my Workbench, Programs and Data partitions. Then if I need to, just copy them over again and thats almost all you need to restore.
I'm glad you could finish the backup without any problems. Last one I did, after hearing some strange clicks from my HD, it stopped at the middle of the Programs backup, and never started again :( Luckily, the Data backup had finished and got a previous one for WB and Programs partition
Its been some months without my A1SE now, but I'm waiting a bit more before buying a new disk and a SATA card. I?ll be moving soon to Barcelona and then I'll have some time.
Meanwhile, I use my new Dell Inspiron 1521 with Debian Lenny. It's very nice, but not the same.
Yes, it is really nice. I like to have backup CDs (yes, CDs, not DVDs) for my Workbench, Programs and Data partitions. Then if I need to, just copy them over again and thats almost all you need to restore.
Atm, all fits into 3.8GB here. Perfect for single-media-backup I recall the days I had backups spanning over 15 floppies Even with all the hassle to transfer the iso to other box (btw: m68k ftpd managed to utilize almost full bandwidth of the network here, 7MB/s over 100 MBit ethernet, eating 75% of 1GHz G4).
Oh, one more factor that allowed to perform the backup: the ~4GB image was created on SFS2 parition, Joerg strikes agaain
Jack
"the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'. A. Schoenberg
Atm, all fits into 3.8GB here. Perfect for single-media-backup I recall the days I had backups spanning over 15 floppies Even with all the hassle to transfer the iso to other box (btw: m68k ftpd managed to utilize almost full bandwidth of the network here, 7MB/s over 100 MBit ethernet, eating 75% of 1GHz G4).
No DVD burner in the A1, or why did you transfer the ISO image to another computer?
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Oh, one more factor that allowed to perform the backup: the ~4GB image was created on SFS2 parition, Joerg strikes agaain
For a 3.8 GB image a SFS\2 partition isn't required, only for files > 4 GB.
No DVD burner in the A1, or why did you transfer the ISO image to another computer?
edit: The one I have is an external, usb interface, usb stack doesn't support this one (yet?)
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For a 3.8 GB image a SFS\2 partition isn't required, only for files > 4 GB.
Yup, for some reason the limit of 2GB was stuck in my head... Next backup it'll be true
Jack
Edited by Jack on 2007/10/9 23:30:21
"the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'. A. Schoenberg
No DVD burner in the A1, or why did you transfer the ISO image to another computer?
edit: The one I have is an external, usb interface, usb stack doesn't support this one (yet?)
It should work, but USB 1.1 is way to slow, it would take about an hour, or even longer, to burn a DVD. Transfering the ISO image with ethernet to another computer and burning it there is much faster.
Even with all the hassle to transfer the iso to other box (btw: m68k ftpd managed to utilize almost full bandwidth of the network here, 7MB/s over 100 MBit ethernet, eating 75% of 1GHz G4).
Just install Filezilla server on your windows box and that will save you CPU cycles
Just install Filezilla server on your windows box and that will save you CPU cycles
No Windblows here, it was either ftp server on linux or on AOS.
Jack
"the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'. A. Schoenberg
No DVD burner in the A1, or why did you transfer the ISO image to another computer?
edit: The one I have is an external, usb interface, usb stack doesn't support this one (yet?)
It should work, but USB 1.1 is way to slow
Any hints? What do you do to burn over usb?
TIA, Jack
"the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'. A. Schoenberg
Start AmiDVD, select the USB burner in the 2nd tab and burn an image. If AmiDVD doesn't display it in the drive chooser I don't know what's wrong since I don't have an USB burner, the output of "MountInfo USB_CD0:" may help.
Start AmiDVD, select the USB burner in the 2nd tab and burn an image. If AmiDVD doesn't display it in the drive chooser I don't know what's wrong since I don't have an USB burner, the output of "MountInfo USB_CD0:" may help.
It is reported to sport a "floppy drive language": Quote:
"the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'. A. Schoenberg
It is reported to sport a "floppy drive language":
You have the July-Update installed, or?
What does it report when you reinstall the Devs:USB/fd/massstorage.usbfd file from the Final-Update?
Bingo! It now recognized as mass storage(with final usbmassstorage) And makecd sees it,but complains about incompatibility (cdr-scsi3-atapi driver)
@joerg
It doesn't show. It isn't usb_cd0: bts, its: usb0:
BTW: the drive is samsung writemaster.
10x, Jack
"the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'. A. Schoenberg
It is reported to sport a "floppy drive language": Massstorage Init | Command language 5 (SFF-8070i (floppy drive)) unsupported Can this easily be supported ? I haven't checked my Dynex USB Floppy yet. <report coming!>
"the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'. A. Schoenberg
"the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'. A. Schoenberg
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I recall the days I had backups spanning over 15 floppies
