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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: giZmo350 on August 23, 2014, 06:25:18 PM
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The EasyADF Backup seems to work well to a USB stick using the tutorial here from AmigaKit http://www.amigakit.co.uk/support/easyadf-backup.php but how in the world do you restore the backup... there doesn't seem to be any options in the backup software to do that. And, if I were to attempt an entire restore to a new CF HDD wouldn't the whole OS (or some functional portion of it) and the EasyADF software and the Trident USB software have to be on the new CF HDD to invoke the restore from the USB stick? Curious minds and all that... :confused:
Oh wonderful! I just got a checksum error while backing up my SYS: partition! ARG! Is that fixable?
Also, while the backup is running the software states that it is compressing. Can that be turned off and would it make a difference if it were?
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OK, so regarding the backup program in EasyADF and being that it failed (due to compression?), I decided to try mfilos' procedure here... http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=673448&postcount=2 Creating the System backup was successful and quick. I decided to backup my Work partition (changing first to DH1 and it seems to have run into a snag... The command executed OK but after a few seconds the hard drive light went continually ON and has been that way for well over an hour and half. Being that all my WHDLoad games are on that partition, how long might I expect to see before the files start copying. Is the HDD light on continually for so long because LHA is gathering data?
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I decided to try to copy the WHDLoad directory (HUGE) to a flash stick and, as expected, that's where I run into these checksum errors and the copy process will simply stop and the HDD light will come on continually instead of flashing while reading the data.
When using this command is there a way to exclude a directory i.e. WHDLoad?
lha -aezrx a DH1:backup.lha #?
At least I have a backup of my SYSTEM directory with no errors! :)
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You might exclude a directory like this:
lha -aerx a dest:backupfile dh0:~(whdload/)#?
else you could set 'A' attrib to directory whdload and use -s to ignore Archiv attrib. Set -S to put A on every backuped file, so you do some incremental backup only saving new files with no A attrib when running lha again.
lha -aerxzsS a dest:backupfile dh0:#?
Third way (i didn't check) is to create a file list from which lha reads what to archive.
Did you use -z because of speed considerations? Became quite a large backup file then.
Best regards
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@Calimeiro
Thanks much for the command examples to exclude a directory!
Backing up or copying the WHDLoad directory has always been a problem. I found a game that was the offending culprit of most of my problems (will avoid that game in the future!). But alas, trouble on my WORK partition has gone from bad to worse. Now on boot up I get a requester box stating that there are bad blocks on WORK and then Intuition throws up requester. I can cancel out and get to WB but that's not good. I'm afraid I'll have to reformat WORK. I managed to copy everything from WORK except the WHDLOAD directory to a USB stick but I'm not sure if that method retains protection bits... etc. Is all protection bits, directory structure, etc retained when copying to the PCMCIA card?
Also, I've read a bit about MASK and MAX Transfer settings for CF cards and how those default settings for FFS are not ideal. All the posts I've read seem to be very confusing as everyone has a different opinion for those settings when using either HDToolBox or HDInslTools (I would be using HDIstlTools) and there just isn't a post with the proper settings as there are just a bunch of arguments on which to use and when! ARG! Anyone have a definitive proper value for these settings? Also, it would seem that all data will be lost on the partition when changing these values according to a requester box I get from HDInslTools. And, should all partitions be set to the same values or will there be trouble if not?
Anyhoo, any suggestions are more than welcome before I change anything with the WORK partition. :)
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I just remembered that I got (or created) a disk with EasyADF that I labeled OS Install - HDD Emergency Install (funny how you forget these important things) that will install WB to memory that also allows (I assume) access the PCMCIA card. @AmigaKit... is there a RESTORE option when using this boot disk? Backups are important but testing BU software is not fun and trying to figure it out when you NEED a restore is even MORE not fun! LOL
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I don't have FastATA or any of the nifty devices you're using.
Afair Mask and Max Transfer are set for every single partition.
Disk errors may occur on bad settings as well as on intererupted write operations.
SFS and PFS are a bit more robust than old FFS.
thomas here on a.org or on eab and other forums is the expert for disks and filesystems. Ask him.
Use a small disk/partition for system only and put games/programs in different disk/partition to avoid worst case scenarios like loosing everything because of bad disk/partition.