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Offline Carrot007

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Re: Amiga forever -> PC?
« on: May 30, 2011, 11:10:26 PM »
> Can I copy all partitions through Amiga Forever and store them on the  PC?

Yes.

>What is the easiest way to do so and how long could I expect a  240MB drive to take?  

Blimin ages! I would recomend (if you have the space) to make a big tarball (tgz probably given its an amiga and other zrchiving methods may take too long) and just copy that.

For your info I save my mac user dir this way using something like:
sudo (not needed on amiga!) tar - cvjf bigtar.tbz2 \Users\MyUserDir (obviously that is bzip2 not gzip though)

> I have the required null modem cable ans  serisl/usb adapter on the PC.

To be honest given the speed of serial transfer I would just hook up the drive to the PC and read it from there. If it's plain old FFS then linux should suffice, I belive UAE should be able to read other formats but I have never needed to try!

If you do do serial, then the one big file to transfer should make things a lot easier there, I eblive that is what I did when I moved from my 1200 back in the day! (must dig out that cd!)