[Coco] old backups, RESTORED!

[Joel Ewy]

On 01/05/2011 08:26 PM, Willard Goosey wrote:
> Woohoo!
>
> I not only restored a BRU hard-drive backup of mine from 2K2 onto a
> drivewire virtual disk, but also Ricky's old HDKIT backup (from 91 or
> so?) to drivewire!

Glad to hear it.  I still wish I had a good backup of the old 40M "MFM" 
drive I used on my mini-tower CoCo 3 repack via Adaptec 4001 (or 
something) SCSI controller and the Disto 4-in-1.  Most of what I had on 
there is also on floppy disks, but I know some stuff was lost when that 
drive failed.  I also wish I had the data that was on my MM/1 drives 
that somehow got zapped as I was trying to hook up a SCSI Zip drive -- 
ironically for the very purpose of backing up the hard drives...

DriveWire does make me feel a little more secure about working with the 
CoCo these days.  Very easy to back up a DW disk image file.

JCE

> No great long-lost gems of forgotten OS-9 software, I'm afraid.  But I
> did find some data I thought was gone forever.
>
> > From the config files, though, Ricky had a very well-connected UUCP
> node.
>
> As far as the restore process goes for the two backup tools, they're
> about the same.  BRU wants to restore to the same device that was
> backed up, and this can be a problem if you backed up /dd.  HDKIT
> requires more user input during the restore process.
>
> Willard