kamiga wrote:
My concerns are that while dd will record every bit on the drive, it does so in such a way that restoring the backup to another (new) drive is impossible because of drive geometry problems.
I have been fooling around off and on with the Amiga version of dd for months trying to do this. My need is different, I have to copy a 'master' Amiga disk to 5 other new drives, luckily all identical to the 'master', and I didn't want to mess with HDToolbox, etc, five times over.
Just on Thursday, I gave up and used an SGI Indy to do the 'dd' trick and it worked first time! I'm only using about 1 G of an 18 G drive, so I used dd to copy only the first 2 G (for safety) into a file, connected a fresh drive, reversed the order of the dd commands, and Bingo! I even have a 'disk image' on the SGI for backup!
I'll try writing to another type disk and see if it works.
I'd really like to get dd working usefully on the Amiga, though. (There was a thread a few months ago where someone pointed me to the Amiga dd, I've been pulling this thread awhile ...)
