Backup and restore to new CF hard drive

[melbourneben!]

Hi All,

I've just purchased a 4GB CF drive from Amiga kit. Ideally I'd like to make a backup image of my current HD and do a restore onto CF card. I realise I'll probably have to backup to floppy but I dont mind. My current HD is only 40MB and is only 60% utilised so shouldn't take long.

Can anyone suggest a program that could do this?

Thanks

[Arnie]

There is a program in the Tools dir called HDBackup.

Alternately, if you can attach the drive to a PC, then you can use WinUAE to make an HDF image of your drive.

[fitzsteve]

I've seen HDF go corrupt, I'd do what Arnie suggests but lha the contents of you drives

That's what I do and none of my backups have ever failed

[Arnie]

Originally Posted by fitzsteve

I've seen HDF go corrupt

That is true, you could also 'lha' the contents of your HD for safe keeping.

The actual geometry of the drive can also be saved as a drive definition file.

[amigakit.com]

Our EasyADF program also has a backup function that can archive your entire partition.

[melbourneben!]

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll post back and let you know what I choose to do and how it went.

[melbourneben!]

I ended up backing up my old drive using Lha to make a compressed archive. I then copied the file to my PC over serial using Amiga explorer, installed my new CF HD and then copied the file back to my new drive. It uncompressed perfectly and everything works great.