Amiga archiving

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Fri Sep 21 19:24:23 2001

I've had great luck in the past few weeks using a
new tool called 'tsgui' that can be found on Aminet
and the usual Amiga-related sites.

It writes an Amiga volume as an HDF file, the format
now supported under emulators such as WinUAE.

My remaining Amigas (an A2000/040 and an A4000/030)
always had Ethernet cards with TCP/IP and NFS. Using
the freeware SOSS NFS server on my PC, I can see
the PC's hard disk on the Amigas. 'tsgui' wrote each
volume across the network.

WinUAE wants sectors and surfaces as if from an
Amiga 'mountlist' in order to understand the geometry
of the HDF hard file. A tool called 'MakeMountlist'
made that easy when the systems (such as the A4000)
didn't use old-fashioned mountlists.

Once loaded into WinUAE, it easily mounted my old volumes.
One tweak to the startup-sequence to map my old volume
WinUAE's default volume names, and suddenly I was booting
into my exact A2000/040 environment in WinUAE.

WinUAE can also mount points on the PC's file system
as Amiga volumes, making future archived file retrieval
quite easy.

- John
Received on Fri Sep 21 2001 - 19:24:23 BST