Hard drive backup software

Hi there,

I've been looking for something I could use to back up my A1222's hard drive to my NAS drive, but I've not been able to find anything that really suits my needs for one reason or another.

I originally wrote a script that would compress the files of each partition using LHA, but I've since noted that this approach is not ideal if an error occurred. As this is a simple script I could end up in the position where the archive is incomplete (which has already happened), so I'm looking for something a bit more intelligent.

I've seen tools that mirror the hard drives by just copying the files, but these fail to work on the NAS drive.

BackMan which I used to use back in the day seems to work well, but has a 10MB limit unless it is registered. The latest version which doesn't require the registration appears to be MorphOS only.

I've tried ABackup, but this sometimes hangs.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Francis

@dfstudios

http://www.os4depot.net/?function=sho ... y/archive/backitallup.lha

http://www.onyxsoft.se/files/backup.lha

@jabirulo

Thanks for that, but as I said tools like these where the files are just copied don't work with the NAS drive. BackItAllUp just continually throws up errors during the backup process as it is unable to set protection bits and comments. Backup is unable to even select the NAS drive and just flashes the screen.

Kind regards,

Francis

@dfstudios

Under Qemu/Peg2 I have always used AmiDVD for backups and made bootable iso,s it was a 1 to 1 copy and that worked fine. When I needed the backup, I could quickly mount it with DiskimageGUI and had quick access to my backed up data.

But on the A1222 AmiDVD doesn't work anymore, I guess it has to do with NGFS, this file system is not supported by AmiDVD?

@dfstudios

How do you mount your NAS drive(s)?

If Backup (onyxsoft) throws errors on choosing the NAS, there is definitely something wrong with your (mounting) setup.

I use smb2fs as mounter and am using Backup all the time to and from without any hassle (big files, thousands of small files, all of them work fine).

you could also try http://os4depot.net/?function=showfil ... y/shell/backupcopy.tar.gz
(didn't test it, but it sounds interesting with multiple possibilities)

@Maijestro
Quote:The file system should make no difference. I don't remember if there was a A1222 beta tester as well, but on the X1000 and X5000 AmiDVD should work starting with version 1.53 or 1.54 of the enhancer software versions of AmiDVD, even with beta kernels, since about 2 years again.
Maybe it's still not released publicly through enhancer updates?

Of course the AmiDVD versions illegally distributed by Hyperion on the AmigaOS 4.1 FE or newer CDs are supposed to fail. Hyperion has no licence for it.