Making a Backup of a Floppy

[the-topdog]

It has been over a decade since I have played with a friend's  Amiga.  I now have a growing collection of Amiga computers and have had to buy Workbench disks to replace the bad ones I got with the machines.

Currently running an Amiga A500 with Workbench 1.3 and an Amiga A600 HD with Workbench 2.1

I cannot remember the process for making a backup copy of a disk so I don't have to keep buying them if they go bad.  Can anyone help me out with what I need to do to make a disk copy?

Thanks in advance!  :-D

[davideo]

@TopDog

This is from memory so it may not be exactly right  ;-)

Boot up from workbench.

Put in the disc you want to backup - Only DOS formatted discs will work this way - most games won't.

Click on the disc icon you want to copy.

Goto the top menu and look for copy. Select copy.

Follow the on screen prompts after that.

I think that's it.

Dave G  8-)

[Nlandas]

Couldn't you also put in the disk, open it, insert the new disk and drag the one onto the other. Boy it's been a long time.

The other options is CLI right?

Copy df0: to df1:

-Nyle

[ChuckT]

If you can get a copy of Rawcopy or some other program, it will copy hard to copy programs because of copy protection.

[motorollin]

@ChuckT
There is no copy protection on Workbench disks...

@the-topdog
You need the diskcopy command, or if you have more than one disk drive you can put one disk in one drive, one disk in the other, and then drag the source disk icon over the top of the destination disc icon.

--
moto

[davideo]

@Nlandas

You could if you've got 2 floppy drives. My way works for a single drive.

The thing you have to watch with my way is that it sticks 'copy of' in front of the original disc name on the copy  :lol:

Or of course you could just use an old fashioned nibble copier (such as synchro express or similar) and that way you could back up any disc  :-)

Dave G  8-)

[the-topdog]

Thanks for the help guys!  :-D

[taunusand]

I mostly use X-Copy  Link

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Don't copy that floppy!

[JaXanim]

The CLI expression for a single drive is... copy df0: df0:
or to be pedantic... copy from df0: to df0:

The system will request the 'From' disk, copy it and the ask for the 'To' disk.

I think the diskcopy command is... diskcopy df0:
It then requests the From and To disks and produces a clone if I remember right.

JaX

[Piru]

The only problem with diskcopy is that it doesn't create identical copy: The volume creation date is modified.

Usually this is no problem, but I prefer 100% copies for backup purposes.

[Piru]

@JaXanim

The CLI expression for a single drive is... copy df0: df0:
or to be pedantic... copy from df0: to df0:

The system will request the 'From' disk, copy it and the ask for the 'To' disk.

That's incorrect. You can't copy files from df0: to df0: like that. In fact you'll try to overwrite the source files by the files themselves (luckily it can't do anything nasty as the files can't be overwritten since they're read from...).

You must specify the source and destination volumes by name. Example:

Code: [Select]

copy Workbench3.1: MyDisk: all clone

I think the diskcopy command is... diskcopy df0:
It then requests the From and To disks and produces a clone if I remember right.

It's

Code: [Select]

diskcopy df0: df0:

If you're going to give advice, please at least make sure your examples are correct. Thank you.

[the-topdog]

It's

Code: [Select]

diskcopy df0: df0:

Thanks, worked like a charm!  :-D