Kind of laughing at this comment, "put the A600 hard drive in a computer"... what, the A600 isn't a computer? 
Everything you're trying to do can be done directly on the Amiga, just as Commodore intended. Everyone advocating the use of WinUAE just wants to take the easy way out, LOL.
Whoops, I rarely tend to do a misstake like that :S I got a quite hectic phase right now, first I got a break in in my car and 2 days ago I bought a new house and ive given up smoking a few days ago so ill blame it on that ^^
Well back on topic, sure WinUAE is the easy way out but it works, I myself tend to do a HDF backup on my miggys quite often since I play around a lot in them and want to be able to rollback if i mess something up to much to my best working WB config.
There is no reason not do do it the easy way for me since I got limited spare time and doing a direct copy from within WB locks my miggy from use for a few hours (it really takes a few hours to do a copy on the real hardware for me), I do not get any satisfaction watching my my Amigas HDD led blink for 2-4h when I know it takes minutes on a Windows machine and those 2-4h could be spend doing somthing fun on my Amiga.
Just the satisfaction of knowing a copy was done on the real hardware is not nearly enough to compensate from hours of fun actually doing something on the Amiga instead.
But hey we all are different, some like this some like that and enjoy different things
