I usually just copy everything from the hard drive to my ORB cartridge
drive as back up. I never use special software to back things up. I
also degfragment the HFS partition by copying everything off the
partition to the ORB, erasing the HFS partition, and then copying
everything back.
-Matt
Howard R. Katz wrote:
The operative phrase here of course is "GS/OS applications." ProDOS is
needed to launch a lot of Apple II software, such as AppleWorks. Since
there's no HFS utilities that I know of that run on a GS, and since most
if not all GS/OS applications are happy running from a ProDOS partition, I
think the idea of having your software and data files in a ProDOS
partition that you can back up, and use the HFS mostly for storage is
probably the safer move.. (I think you can use a Mac to back up a GS's
HFS partition, but I've never tried it.)
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
Actually lots(not all) of GS OS applications and games can be run from
HFS. But yes, the IIgs will need a ProDOS partion to boot to and load
the operating system from. I have 4 partitions on my IIgs's 350MB
drive... One ProDOS partition for GSOS, 2 ProDOS partitions for games
and apps that wont run from HFS, and one large HFS partition which I put
anything that will run from HFS in.
-Matthew S. Carpenter
Later.................Howard
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