Hi,
if you have already a TCP/IP connection to your PC it should be quite easy:
Just allow the other computers access the drives (CD-Rom, HD) of your PC.
Load the Samba-handler from "
http://www.dmbsoft.de" and follow the instructions of the documentation, or load "smbfs" from the Aminet "
ftp://de.aminet.net/pub/aminet/comm/tcp/smbfs.lha"
Then you could mount the PC drives and use a simple filemanager like DirOpus "
http://dopus.free.fr/download.html" to copy your whole HD to any available directory of your PC.
You need not to boot using a boot-disk for this purpose. You could add a new HD to an Amiga-system, start the Amiga, partition and format the other drive and copy the whole contents of your old HD to the new one, and then repartition your old HD while the system is still running !
Ok, there are a few things you should rely on or you loose your system, but I've made it several times, my Amiga installation is 12 years old ! In the meantime I've updated the OS two times and changed the HD two times (and have repartioned it several times more), I've made two processor upgrades, added an GFX-card and other hardware, changed from SCSI-I to UW-SCSI, but I've never needed to make a new clean installation !
You should nevertheless create a boot-disk (and usually an additional tool-disk) so you could copy your backup back to the Amiga, if its required one day. You will need an additional tool-disk, because all required tools will not fit on a single disk.
Noster
