On 20-Sep-04, at 7:22 AM, Stefan Daehler wrote:
How can I back up the HD [SCSI] in case something goes wrong. And is it
possible to use a larger drive.
Hi Steve,
Be aware that your Quadra 700 can accommodate quite a bit larger internal or external hard drives than you are currently using.
There are lots of alternatives, but here's one that might do:
Pick up a larger hard drive core, like at least one Gigabyte. Put it into your external hard drive case and get it working. Be sure to set the SCSI ID number to something other than zero.
See if you can pick up a copy of Conflict Catcher 8. It has a neat feature called something like System Merge, which really takes a lot of the work out of installing a Clean new System Folder and then migrating any needed third party files, like fonts, Control Panels, or Extensions, from your old System Folder to the new System Folder. You would install Conflict Catcher on your existing internal hard drive as well as on the new Clean 7.5.3 or higher System Folder you put on the new external hard drive folder.
Boot your system from the new external hard drive and run the System Merge feature of Conflict Catcher to get all those important non-Apple files moved over.
Then copy all the non-System files from the internal hard drive over to the external hard drive. Voila, you have yourself everything you need plus lots of spare hard drive space.
If you like, at that stage you could change the SCSI ID of the hard drive in your external case to zero and pop it into the Quadra case, replacing the old internal hard drive and making it so you can run everything without the external case attached. You could get a second new hard drive core, pop that into the external case, and now you would have a second drive which you could use from time to time to house backups of your main drive.
There are TONS of different strategies for doing backups, so this is by no means the only way to go about things and maybe not even the best for you. I'm sure a few other folks will have alternative suggestions.
Oh, one source to pickup both hard drives and Conflict Catcher would be ebay. Conflict Catcher is no longer sold new as the company which marketed it went out of business.
Good luck!!
Jim Foster President Macintosh Users East [MaUsE] http://www.mause.ca
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