On 26 Feb 2009, at 15:24:00 PST, Derek Morton wrote:
> I am (finally) getting around to going through my old macs. One > desire I have is to save all the programs and data files to a single > repository so I can go through and categorize them at a later time. > I want to do this before the drives start to fail and everything is > lost forever. > > I am transferring the files (via appletalk) from old machines (Plus > through Quicksilver and just about everything in between) to my > newest (quad G5). I am guessing a total of 2 dozen or so computers. > So far I have transferred from a few Quadras, a 6100 and my 8600 > (around 16 GB so far). Once I dig out my old monitors I can get to > work on some of the older machines. > > So here is my question... Are there any issues or concerns about > file / data integrity when doing this? Are the resource forks going > to get stripped away in the process? Any other "gotchas" I should be > aware of (we are talking about 15+ years of technology difference > here)? The G5 drive is HFS+, so I am thinking I am safe... but > hopefully somebody else has some experience with this sort of thing. > > Long term I think I will move everything to magneto-optical storage, > but short term I will keep a couple copies on different drives for > safety (the G5 is running a striped array... not too safe - but > fast!). > > I must say, it has been quite a pleasure bringing some of these old > systems back up again... I forgot how fast some of them are! My > 8600 (originally a 300MHz 604e with a NewerTech G4 upgrade) running a > 4 drive wide SCSI striped array, Voodoo5-5500 video card... Can you > say perky? Many of my machines are max'd out and it really makes a > difference. > > Anyway, any thoughts would be appreciated. ------------------ You are as ambitious as I wish I was. What I have done in the past is copy the "drive" from older machines to my most "modern" Mac, and then burn that info to a CD or DVD. I have had no real problem, except that I have run into a few instances where I ended up with a couple of files created with applications that will not run on the most up to date operating systems. Nothing of real "value" so it has not really been a problem. I am not sure what you mean by "magneto-optical storage" but I would give a thought to burning the info to CDs or DVDs as you are more likely to have drives in the future that can read the media. Ken http://mysite.verizon.net/res7gt1w/stackomacs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
