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Old 10-07-2010, 07:41 PM   #1
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Default Copy a drive

What is the best way to copy all the data on multiple partitions to another drive?

I'm trying to duplicate GBs of data from old SCSI drives to newer more reliable drives.

Right now I'm writing down the partitions so that I can make similar partitions on another drive, then showing all icons, selecting all and copying everything to the new drive through Workbench.

There has to be a better way, this is painful.

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Old 10-07-2010, 07:53 PM   #2
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What is the best way to copy all the data on multiple partitions to another drive?

I'm trying to duplicate GBs of data from old SCSI drives to newer more reliable drives.

Right now I'm writing down the partitions so that I can make similar partitions on another drive, then showing all icons, selecting all and copying everything to the new drive through Workbench.

There has to be a better way, this is painful.

Thanks
I simply use Dirwork (a bit like DOpus) when copying from one HD to another, it's much easier than using Workbench...
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Old 10-07-2010, 07:57 PM   #3
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Default Re: Copy a drive

I finally realized that Dopus was on one of the drives and started over with that.

Still seems glacially slow, but at least I have a cancel button and a progress bar.

Is there an equivalent to ghost for amiga?
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I finally realized that Dopus was on one of the drives and started over with that.

Still seems glacially slow, but at least I have a cancel button and a progress bar.

Is there an equivalent to ghost for amiga?
Never heard of Ghost, but with over 20 years of using the Amiga, DOpus or Dirwork are about as fast as you can get, sorry...
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Old 10-07-2010, 08:23 PM   #5
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Default Re: Copy a drive

Sorry, Ghost is a disk imager/duplicator for PC hard drives.

Either drive to drive or drive to a file to be backed up.

It's really nice and I've seen similar apps for Linux, so I thought maybe there was an equivalent on Amiga.

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Old 10-07-2010, 08:42 PM   #6
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Is there an equivalent to ghost for amiga?
You may want to look at this...

http://www.sgowdy.org/~gowdy/Amiga/A...ns/news14.html

and...

http://jaba.mbnet.fi/retrogaming/con...rterback-tools

I believe the "replicator" tool would do what you want. Strangely it only mentions "floppys" but I'm pretty sure that this would allow you to image and restore a HD. (you might want to do some more research on that or experiment with some disks that you don't care about.)

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