duplicate cf card

[Norway]

Hello, i have made myself a nice setup on one of my cf hddrives. and would like to copy it to another cf hd. is there a easy way to do that.  :-?  :-)

[orange]

I would try to do it on PC.
IIRC, there is some software called 'Acronis true image', it should be able to clone it. just be very careful not to choose wrong device/partition of course..
If you have one of them Linux thingies, 'dd' might do.

On Amiga, you can simply partition it in same way and copy all files and directories. That way you'll also nicely defragment it. (there are CF adapters with slots for two cards-master/slave, but I'm not sure if they work fine on, say, A1200)

[Ilwrath]

IIRC, there is some software called 'Acronis true image', it should be able to clone it.

I doubt any disk imaging programs would recognize an Amiga SFS or FFS volume.  (And they do need to recognize the volume type for copying between drives of different sizes, geometries, etc.  Even cf cards have an emulated geometry...)

Really, copying it in an Amiga environment is probably best.  UAE should be able to read that cf.  
* Boot UAE with the cf mounted and an extra empty hardfile.  
* Copy the contents of the cf to the empty hardfile.
* Quit UAE and swap the cf cards.
* Reboot into UAE and copy the contents of your hardfile to the new cf card.

I see no reason that shouldn't work.

[motorollin]

If your Amiga is an A1200 or an A600, you could put the second CF card in a CF -> PCMCIA adapter and mount it, then you can copy from one card to the other.

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moto

[broken]

Ilwrath wrote:

Really, copying it in an Amiga environment is probably best.  UAE should be able to read that cf.  
* Boot UAE with the cf mounted and an extra empty hardfile.  
* Copy the contents of the cf to the empty hardfile.
* Quit UAE and swap the cf cards.
* Reboot into UAE and copy the contents of your hardfile to the new cf card.

I see no reason that shouldn't work.

I did something similar recently to copy my CF card. Except I used 2 CF card readers. Booted up WinUAE and then just partitioned the second card and copied the stuff across.

[Norway]

Many thanks to all of you, i will look into the pcmcia way first. if that doesent work, i wil try with uae
 :-)

[orange]

sorry to dig this up...

I have tried acronis disk director and it does offer copying partitions sector-by-sector. by using that I could copy unknown (Solaris) parition to new disk.
so, it would probably work with Amiga filesystems too.

(BTW, you can find it on hirens boot cd)