D/R HDD - Disaster Recovery Hard Drive Failures

[captainamerica]

OK, ...synthjoe got me thinking about D/R HDD (Disaster Recovery Hard Drive Failures). Before I go trolling thru the site for some info, can you guys recommend a good workflow/backup procedure around this.? I have never had a HDD failure with my d8b and my Hard drive is original.

Thanks everyone

[Crash]

As crude as it sounds, I throw mix files on floppies still. They are not very big and you can get a lot of them on a floppy.

[captainamerica]

I assume than you can't really rely on a FTP backup server than because you need to boot off floppies?

[Crash]

Hmmm. I have never tried any FTP with the d8b, though I have used FTP with the HDR to sling files in and out of the machine. Someone smarter than me will have to attack this question.

I just put mix files on floppy as a backup in case the hardrive were to go down in flames. I have yet to run a mix file off of a floppy...though I think we did play with that at the mothership when the console was in production.

[captainamerica]

I usually dump all my files (system and mixes) via FTP to my server as part of my backup. Again, I have never had to rebuild OS5.1 on the d8b, so I don't know if transferring those files back to the system would even work?

[synthjoe]

FTP is pretty good, but it will not contain OS files, so you're not able to restore fully from it, just the user data.

For a full backup you can use an older version of Ghost (boot from a floppy, use network mode - it needs a bit of setting up and a proper boot floppy, not recommended if you don't already have that), or disassemble the CPU, take out and connect the disk to a modern computer using an IDE/USB converter and copy all files (including hidden and system files) or image with some current tool. You can also put a secondary (primary, actually) disk in the CPU with some basic operating system and an imaging too on it, and so on, and so forth.

Just some ideas, can really go about it in many ways. Basically just like backing up a W9x/W2000 machine.

[captainamerica]

OK...this is good, at least it gives me some ideas

Thanks

[anyhorizon]

Classic! How much time do you have up your sleeve?

[High C Double G]

Classic! How much time do you have up your sleeve?

What is a sleeve? it is summer here

Keep the peace.

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