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MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:51:58Z

Jason: /* Making the Disk Image Usable as a Regular Disk */

''Author: Jason Grenier''
==Starting Out==
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will need to format the drive in file-system format that MorphOS understands. I recommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems. It is also helpful to use Fat32 as almost all operating systems have support for it.

If you are using Windows XP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with partitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available here: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm [http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

==Fat32 and Amiga Protection Bits==
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition.

First you need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature.

Please note that you can use Kryptos to make disk image based backups, however, Kryptos makes encrypted disk images which may be more than what you need for backup purposes. Encrypted images are not covered by this tutorial.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The cryptographic options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The file-system page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

==Making The Disk Image Usable As A Regular Disk==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

==Backing Up To Disk Images==
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following in a new command shell (Action-n from Ambient) <tt>copy clone all sys:#? IMAGE0:</tt>
# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

==Restoring From Disk Image Backups==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:51:24Z

Jason: /* Making Your Backup */

''Author: Jason Grenier''
==Starting Out==
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will need to format the drive in file-system format that MorphOS understands. I recommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems. It is also helpful to use Fat32 as almost all operating systems have support for it.

If you are using Windows XP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with partitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available here: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm [http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

==Fat32 and Amiga Protection Bits==
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition.

First you need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature.

Please note that you can use Kryptos to make disk image based backups, however, Kryptos makes encrypted disk images which may be more than what you need for backup purposes. Encrypted images are not covered by this tutorial.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The cryptographic options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The file-system page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

==Making the Disk Image Usable as a Regular Disk==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

==Backing Up To Disk Images==
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following in a new command shell (Action-n from Ambient) <tt>copy clone all sys:#? IMAGE0:</tt>
# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

==Restoring From Disk Image Backups==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:51:00Z

Jason: /* To Restore from Your Bsckups */

''Author: Jason Grenier''
==Starting Out==
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will need to format the drive in file-system format that MorphOS understands. I recommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems. It is also helpful to use Fat32 as almost all operating systems have support for it.

If you are using Windows XP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with partitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available here: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm [http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

==Fat32 and Amiga Protection Bits==
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition.

First you need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature.

Please note that you can use Kryptos to make disk image based backups, however, Kryptos makes encrypted disk images which may be more than what you need for backup purposes. Encrypted images are not covered by this tutorial.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The cryptographic options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The file-system page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

==Making the Disk Image Usable as a Regular Disk==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

==Making Your Backup==
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following in a new command shell (Action-n from Ambient) <tt>copy clone all sys:#? IMAGE0:</tt>
# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

==Restoring From Disk Image Backups==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:50:36Z

Jason: /* To Restore From Your Bsckups */

''Author: Jason Grenier''
==Starting Out==
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will need to format the drive in file-system format that MorphOS understands. I recommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems. It is also helpful to use Fat32 as almost all operating systems have support for it.

If you are using Windows XP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with partitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available here: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm [http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

==Fat32 and Amiga Protection Bits==
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition.

First you need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature.

Please note that you can use Kryptos to make disk image based backups, however, Kryptos makes encrypted disk images which may be more than what you need for backup purposes. Encrypted images are not covered by this tutorial.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The cryptographic options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The file-system page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

==Making the Disk Image Usable as a Regular Disk==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

==Making Your Backup==
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following in a new command shell (Action-n from Ambient) <tt>copy clone all sys:#? IMAGE0:</tt>
# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

==To Restore from Your Bsckups==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:50:20Z

Jason: /* Making The Disk Image Usable as a Regular Disk */

''Author: Jason Grenier''
==Starting Out==
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will need to format the drive in file-system format that MorphOS understands. I recommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems. It is also helpful to use Fat32 as almost all operating systems have support for it.

If you are using Windows XP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with partitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available here: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm [http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

==Fat32 and Amiga Protection Bits==
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition.

First you need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature.

Please note that you can use Kryptos to make disk image based backups, however, Kryptos makes encrypted disk images which may be more than what you need for backup purposes. Encrypted images are not covered by this tutorial.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The cryptographic options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The file-system page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

==Making the Disk Image Usable as a Regular Disk==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

==Making Your Backup==
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following in a new command shell (Action-n from Ambient) <tt>copy clone all sys:#? IMAGE0:</tt>
# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

==To Restore From Your Bsckups==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:48:04Z

Jason:

''Author: Jason Grenier''
==Starting Out==
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will need to format the drive in file-system format that MorphOS understands. I recommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems. It is also helpful to use Fat32 as almost all operating systems have support for it.

If you are using Windows XP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with partitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available here: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm [http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

==Fat32 and Amiga Protection Bits==
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition.

First you need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature.

Please note that you can use Kryptos to make disk image based backups, however, Kryptos makes encrypted disk images which may be more than what you need for backup purposes. Encrypted images are not covered by this tutorial.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The cryptographic options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The file-system page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

==Making The Disk Image Usable as a Regular Disk==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

==Making Your Backup==
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following in a new command shell (Action-n from Ambient) <tt>copy clone all sys:#? IMAGE0:</tt>
# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

==To Restore From Your Bsckups==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:47:12Z

Jason: /* Starting Out: */

==Starting Out==
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will need to format the drive in file-system format that MorphOS understands. I recommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems. It is also helpful to use Fat32 as almost all operating systems have support for it.

If you are using Windows XP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with partitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available here: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm [http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

==Fat32 and Amiga Protection Bits==
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition.

First you need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature.

Please note that you can use Kryptos to make disk image based backups, however, Kryptos makes encrypted disk images which may be more than what you need for backup purposes. Encrypted images are not covered by this tutorial.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The cryptographic options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The file-system page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

==Making The Disk Image Usable as a Regular Disk==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

==Making Your Backup==
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following in a new command shell (Action-n from Ambient) <tt>copy clone all sys:#? IMAGE0:</tt>
# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

==To Restore From Your Bsckups==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:46:39Z

Jason: /* A solution to the Fat32 Problem */

==Starting Out:==
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will need to format the drive in file-system format that MorphOS understands. I recommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems. It is also helpful to use Fat32 as almost all operating systems have support for it.

If you are using Windows XP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with partitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available here: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm [http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

==Fat32 and Amiga Protection Bits==
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition.

First you need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature.

Please note that you can use Kryptos to make disk image based backups, however, Kryptos makes encrypted disk images which may be more than what you need for backup purposes. Encrypted images are not covered by this tutorial.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The cryptographic options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The file-system page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

==Making The Disk Image Usable as a Regular Disk==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

==Making Your Backup==
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following in a new command shell (Action-n from Ambient) <tt>copy clone all sys:#? IMAGE0:</tt>
# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

==To Restore From Your Bsckups==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:46:07Z

Jason: /* To Restore: */

==Starting Out:==
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will need to format the drive in file-system format that MorphOS understands. I recommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems. It is also helpful to use Fat32 as almost all operating systems have support for it.

If you are using Windows XP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with partitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available here: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm [http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

==A solution to the Fat32 Problem==
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition.

First you need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature.

Please note that you can use Kryptos to make disk image based backups, however, Kryptos makes encrypted disk images which may be more than what you need for backup purposes. Encrypted images are not covered by this tutorial.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The cryptographic options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The file-system page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

==Making The Disk Image Usable as a Regular Disk==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

==Making Your Backup==
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following in a new command shell (Action-n from Ambient) <tt>copy clone all sys:#? IMAGE0:</tt>
# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

==To Restore From Your Bsckups==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:40:44Z

Jason:

==Starting Out:==
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will need to format the drive in file-system format that MorphOS understands. I recommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems. It is also helpful to use Fat32 as almost all operating systems have support for it.

If you are using Windows XP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with partitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available here: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm [http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

==A solution to the Fat32 Problem==
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition.

First you need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature.

Please note that you can use Kryptos to make disk image based backups, however, Kryptos makes encrypted disk images which may be more than what you need for backup purposes. Encrypted images are not covered by this tutorial.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The cryptographic options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The file-system page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

==Making The Disk Image Usable as a Regular Disk==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

==Making Your Backup==
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following in a new command shell (Action-n from Ambient) <tt>copy clone all sys:#? IMAGE0:</tt>
# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

==To Restore:==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:39:02Z

Jason: /* Making The Disk Image Usabe as a Regular Disk */

==Starting Out:==
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will nedd to format the drive in filesystem format that MorphOS understands. I recommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems. It is also helpful to use Fat32 as almost all operating systems have support for it.

If you are using WindowsXP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with patitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available here: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm [http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

==A solution to the Fat32 Problem==
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition.

First you need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature.

Please note that you can use Kryptos to make disk image based backups, however, Kryptos makes encrypted disk images which may be more than what you need for backup purposes. Encrytped images are not covered by this tutorial.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The crypto options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The filesystem page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

==Making The Disk Image Usable as a Regular Disk==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

==Making Your Backup==
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following in a new command shell (Action-n from Ambient) <tt>copy clone all sys:#? IMAGE0:</tt>
# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

==To Restore:==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:38:16Z

Jason: /* A solution to the Fat32 Problem */

==Starting Out:==
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will nedd to format the drive in filesystem format that MorphOS understands. I recommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems. It is also helpful to use Fat32 as almost all operating systems have support for it.

If you are using WindowsXP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with patitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available here: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm [http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

==A solution to the Fat32 Problem==
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition.

First you need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature.

Please note that you can use Kryptos to make disk image based backups, however, Kryptos makes encrypted disk images which may be more than what you need for backup purposes. Encrytped images are not covered by this tutorial.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The crypto options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The filesystem page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

==Making The Disk Image Usabe as a Regular Disk==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

==Making Your Backup==
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following in a new command shell (Action-n from Ambient) <tt>copy clone all sys:#? IMAGE0:</tt>
# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

==To Restore:==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:35:32Z

Jason:

==Starting Out:==
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will nedd to format the drive in filesystem format that MorphOS understands. I recommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems. It is also helpful to use Fat32 as almost all operating systems have support for it.

If you are using WindowsXP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with patitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available here: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm [http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

==A solution to the Fat32 Problem==
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition. Here is how to do it.

You firstly need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos, however, you will need to memorize/write down a password, and this may become unwieldly. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature. This is the only way I know of to create an image file.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The crypto options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The filesystem page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

==Making The Disk Image Usabe as a Regular Disk==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

==Making Your Backup==
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following in a new command shell (Action-n from Ambient) <tt>copy clone all sys:#? IMAGE0:</tt>
# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

==To Restore:==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:35:13Z

Jason: /* Starting Out: */

==Starting Out:==
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will nedd to format the drive in filesystem format that MorphOS understands. I recommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems. It is also helpful to use Fat32 as almost all operating systems have support for it.

If you are using WindowsXP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with patitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available here: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm [http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

A solution to the Fat32 Problem:
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition. Here is how to do it.

You firstly need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos, however, you will need to memorize/write down a password, and this may become unwieldly. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature. This is the only way I know of to create an image file.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The crypto options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The filesystem page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

==Making The Disk Image Usabe as a Regular Disk==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

==Making Your Backup==
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following in a new command shell (Action-n from Ambient) <tt>copy clone all sys:#? IMAGE0:</tt>
# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

==To Restore:==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:32:53Z

Jason:

==Starting Out:==
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will nedd to format the drive in filesystem format that MorphOS understands. I ecommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems.

If you are using WindowsXP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with patitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available at:
[http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

A solution to the Fat32 Problem:
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition. Here is how to do it.

You firstly need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos, however, you will need to memorize/write down a password, and this may become unwieldly. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature. This is the only way I know of to create an image file.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The crypto options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The filesystem page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

==Making The Disk Image Usabe as a Regular Disk==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

==Making Your Backup==
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following in a new command shell (Action-n from Ambient) <tt>copy clone all sys:#? IMAGE0:</tt>
# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

==To Restore:==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:32:38Z

Jason:

==MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide==
Please follow the instructions carefully.

==Starting Out:==
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will nedd to format the drive in filesystem format that MorphOS understands. I ecommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems.

If you are using WindowsXP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with patitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available at:
[http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

A solution to the Fat32 Problem:
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition. Here is how to do it.

You firstly need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos, however, you will need to memorize/write down a password, and this may become unwieldly. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature. This is the only way I know of to create an image file.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The crypto options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The filesystem page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

==Making The Disk Image Usabe as a Regular Disk==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

==Making Your Backup==
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following in a new command shell (Action-n from Ambient) <tt>copy clone all sys:#? IMAGE0:</tt>
# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

==To Restore:==

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:30:25Z

Jason: /* Making Your Backup */

==MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide==

===Starting Out:===
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will nedd to format the drive in filesystem format that MorphOS understands. I ecommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems.

If you are using WindowsXP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with patitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available at:
[http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

A solution to the Fat32 Problem:
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition. Here is how to do it.

You firstly need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos, however, you will need to memorize/write down a password, and this may become unwieldly. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature. This is the only way I know of to create an image file.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The crypto options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The filesystem page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

===Making The Disk Image Usabe as a Regular Disk===

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

===Making Your Backup===
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following in a new command shell (Action-n from Ambient) <tt>copy clone all sys:#? IMAGE0:</tt>
# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

===To Restore:===

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:29:10Z

Jason: /* Making Your Backup */

==MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide==

===Starting Out:===
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will nedd to format the drive in filesystem format that MorphOS understands. I ecommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems.

If you are using WindowsXP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with patitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available at:
[http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

A solution to the Fat32 Problem:
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition. Here is how to do it.

You firstly need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos, however, you will need to memorize/write down a password, and this may become unwieldly. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature. This is the only way I know of to create an image file.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The crypto options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The filesystem page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

===Making The Disk Image Usabe as a Regular Disk===

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

===Making Your Backup===
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following command line commands. Press entere at the end of each line. <tt>copy clone all sys:#? IMAGE0:</tt>

# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

===To Restore:===

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:26:36Z

Jason:

==MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide==

===Starting Out:===
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will nedd to format the drive in filesystem format that MorphOS understands. I ecommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems.

If you are using WindowsXP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with patitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available at:
[http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

A solution to the Fat32 Problem:
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition. Here is how to do it.

You firstly need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos, however, you will need to memorize/write down a password, and this may become unwieldly. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature. This is the only way I know of to create an image file.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The crypto options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The filesystem page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

===Making The Disk Image Usabe as a Regular Disk===

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

===Making Your Backup===
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following command line commands. Press entere at the end of each line.

sys:
copy clone all #? IMAGE0:

# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

===To Restore:===

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:25:48Z

Jason:

==MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide==

===Starting Out:===
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will nedd to format the drive in filesystem format that MorphOS understands. I ecommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems.

If you are using WindowsXP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with patitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available at:
[http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

A solution to the Fat32 Problem:
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition. Here is how to do it.

You firstly need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos, however, you will need to memorize/write down a password, and this may become unwieldly. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature. This is the only way I know of to create an image file.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The crypto options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The filesystem page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

===Making The Disk Image Usabe as a Regular Disk===

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

'''Making Your Backup'''
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following command line commands. Press entere at the end of each line.

sys:
copy clone all #? IMAGE0:

# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

===To Restore:===

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:24:28Z

Jason:

'''MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide'''

'''Starting Out:'''
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will nedd to format the drive in filesystem format that MorphOS understands. I ecommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems.

If you are using WindowsXP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with patitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available at:
[http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

A solution to the Fat32 Problem:
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition. Here is how to do it.

You firstly need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos, however, you will need to memorize/write down a password, and this may become unwieldly. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature. This is the only way I know of to create an image file.

# Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
# Select a Unit and click on Create New...
# Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
# Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
# The crypto options don't matter. Click next.
# Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
# The filesystem page doesn't matter. Click Next.
# Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
# Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
# Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
# Quit Kryptos.

Making The Disk Image Usabe as a Regular Disk

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
# Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
# Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
# Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
# Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
# Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
# Click Save... under the drive image icon.
# Close HDConfig
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Close Mounter
# On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
# Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
# Close the format window.
# Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

Making Your Backup
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

# Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
# Input the following command line commands. Press entere at the end of each line.

sys:
copy clone all #? IMAGE0:

# Wait for the copy to finish.
# Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

To Restore:

# Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
# Select a Unit
# Click Insert...
# Select your backup image
# Close FileImageCtrl
# Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
# Select fileimage.device from the top pane
# Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
# Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
# Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
# Close Mounter
# You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:23:05Z

Jason: This tutorial show you how to create disk image based backups stored on an external USB drive.

'''MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide'''

'''Starting Out:'''
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will nedd to format the drive in filesystem format that MorphOS understands. I ecommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems.

If you are using WindowsXP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with patitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available at:
[http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm]

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

A solution to the Fat32 Problem:
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition. Here is how to do it.

You firstly need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos, however, you will need to memorize/write down a password, and this may become unwieldly. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature. This is the only way I know of to create an image file.

#1. Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
#2. Select a Unit and click on Create New...
#3. Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
#4. Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
#5. The crypto options don't matter. Click next.
#6. Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
#7. The filesystem page doesn't matter. Click Next.
#8. Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
#9. Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
#10. Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
#11. Quit Kryptos.

Making The Disk Image Usabe as a Regular Disk

#1. Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
#2. Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
#3. Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
#4. Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
#5. Close FileImageCtrl
#6. Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
#7. Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
#8. Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
#9. Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
#10. Click Save... under the drive image icon.
#11. Close HDConfig
#12. Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
#13. Select fileimage.device from the top pane
#14. Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
#15. Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
#16. Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
#17. Close Mounter
#18. On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
#19. Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
#20. Close the format window.
#21. Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

Making Your Backup
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

#1. Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
#2. Input the following command line commands. Press entere at the end of each line.

sys:
copy clone all #? IMAGE0:

#3. Wait for the copy to finish.
#4. Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

To Restore:

#1. Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
#2. Select a Unit
#3. Click Insert...
#4. Select your backup image
#5. Close FileImageCtrl
#6. Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
#7. Select fileimage.device from the top pane
#8. Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
#9. Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
#10. Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
#11. Close Mounter
#12. You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:19:38Z

Jason:

'''MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide'''

'''Starting Out:'''
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will nedd to format the drive in filesystem format that MorphOS understands. I ecommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems.

If you are using WindowsXP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with patitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available at:
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

A solution to the Fat32 Problem:
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition. Here is how to do it.

You firstly need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos, however, you will need to memorize/write down a password, and this may become unwieldly. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature. This is the only way I know of to create an image file.

1. Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
2. Select a Unit and click on Create New...
3. Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
4. Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
5. The crypto options don't matter. Click next.
6. Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
7. The filesystem page doesn't matter. Click Next.
8. Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
9. Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
10. Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
11. Quit Kryptos.

Making The Disk Image Usabe as a Regular Disk

1. Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
2. Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
3. Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
4. Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
5. Close FileImageCtrl
6. Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
7. Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
8. Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
9. Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
10. Click Save... under the drive image icon.
11. Close HDConfig
12. Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
13. Select fileimage.device from the top pane
14. Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
15. Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
16. Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
17. Close Mounter
18. On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
19. Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
20. Close the format window.
21. Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

Making Your Backup
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

1. Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
2. Input the following command line commands. Press entere at the end of each line.

sys:
copy clone all #? IMAGE0:

3. Wait for the copy to finish.
4. Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

To Restore:

1. Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
2. Select a Unit
3. Click Insert...
4. Select your backup image
5. Close FileImageCtrl
6. Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
7. Select fileimage.device from the top pane
8. Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
9. Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
16. Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
17. Close Mounter
18. You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

2010-05-04T19:18:40Z

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MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide

Starting Out:
First things first, you need an external drive. 500GB to 1TB drives are now very inexpensive, so go out and buy one.

You will nedd to format the drive in filesystem format that MorphOS understands. I ecommend FAT32 as I have been told that external drives formatted as MorphOS SFS can cause serious problems.

If you are using WindowsXP to format the drive, you will need a large capacity formatting tool as the built in tools will not allow you to format a large drive with patitions larger than 4GB.

A good tool is guiformat.exe available at:
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm

You can, of course, also use MorphOS to format the drive, but this is not something I will cover in this tutorial.

A solution to the Fat32 Problem:
Fat32 cannot store Amiga file protection bits. A solution to this problem is to create an SFS Disk Image on the the Fat32 partition. Here is how to do it.

You firstly need to create a disk image file. You can do this quite easily with Kryptos, however, you will need to memorize/write down a password, and this may become unwieldly. We will use Kryptos to create an image, but not use it's encryption feature. This is the only way I know of to create an image file.

1. Open SYS:Applications/Kryptos
2. Select a Unit and click on Create New...
3. Save your image file somewhere on the Fat32 drive you formatted earlier by clicking on the file gadget. Give it an appropriate name, click ok, and click on Next.
4. Make the volume an appropriate size. You can make it large enough for one backup, or large enough for several. You may want to consider making it 3800MB so it will safely fit on a DVD.
5. The crypto options don't matter. Click next.
6. Enter any password. We won't be using it anyway, so it doesn't matter what it is. Click next.
7. The filesystem page doesn't matter. Click Next.
8. Wiggle the mouse, click Create.
9. Wait while the image is created. It could take quite a while depending on its size. Click OK.
10. Back in the Kryptos main window, click Eject to eject your newly created image.
11. Quit Kryptos.

Making The Disk Image Usabe as a Regular Disk

1. Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
2. Click a unit to highlight it, then click Insert...
3. Select the disk image you created earlier, and click OK.
4. Make sure Read/Write is selected in the window.
5. Close FileImageCtrl
6. Open SYS:Tools/HDConfig
7. Under FILE IMAGE you should see your disk. It will likely appear as a red disk icon. Click to the right of its icon.
8. Select One partition from the selection window, unless you wan't more, but you're on your own if you go that route.
9. Click to the right of the image drive icon again. This time you will have to give the partition a name. Call it IMAGE0 or whatever you want. Just make sure it isn't named the same as other partitions! Click OK.
10. Click Save... under the drive image icon.
11. Close HDConfig
12. Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
13. Select fileimage.device from the top pane
14. Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
15. Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
16. Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you insert the image using SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
17. Close Mounter
18. On your desktop (Ambient) select Utilities->Format Disk from the main menu (right click menu)
19. Select IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image), give it a label, and click Quick Format... You may uncheck any of the options.
20. Close the format window.
21. Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS

Making Your Backup
You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

1. Open a new shell (Action-N from ambient).
2. Input the following command line commands. Press entere at the end of each line.

sys:
copy clone all #? IMAGE0:

3. Wait for the copy to finish.
4. Repeat for each drive you want to backup.

CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!

To Restore:

1. Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl
2. Select a Unit
3. Click Insert...
4. Select your backup image
5. Close FileImageCtrl
6. Open SYS:Tools/Mounter
7. Select fileimage.device from the top pane
8. Highlight IMAGE0 (or whatever you named your image) in the bottom pane.
9. Select MorphOS SFS from the FileSystem: gadget.
16. Click Mount, or Mount on Boot if you want the image to always be mounted when you start MorphOS
17. Close Mounter
18. You may now copy all or some of the files from IMAGE0: to wherever you want.

Main Page

2010-05-04T19:18:17Z

Jason: /* Tutorials */

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<div style="font-size:162%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#274572;">Welcome to the MorphOS Library,</div>
<div style="top:+0.2em; font-size:95%;">the wiki based library of MorphOS related documentation.</div>
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Do you have suggestions or would like to contribute? Please contact: <div id="message2library"></div>

'''Important notes to editors:''' [[Basic Guidelines]] - [[List of Wanted Articles]]

==MorphOS - The Lightning OS==

* [[What is MorphOS?]]
* [[Hardware Platforms]]
* [[Installation]]
* [[Characteristic features]]
* [[MorphOS integration]]
* [[MorphOS Development]]
* [[Developer tools]]
* [[3D graphics]]
* [[Games]]
* [[MorphOS key applications]]
* [[Platform expansion]]
* [[Who needs MorphOS?]]
* [[Conclusions]]
* [[Useful links]]
* [[F.A.Q.]]
* [[Historical notes]]
* [[Contributors]]

==Articles==
The core of the MorphOS Library can be found here. Along with the provided manuals, there are several documents designed to help users get the most out of their MorphOS powered computer.

* [[Fundamentals of MorphOS]]
* [[Dictionary of Terms]]
* [[Shell Commands|Shell: Commands]]
* [[Pattern matching|Shell: Pattern Matching]]
* [[Volume Names]]

==Tutorials==
Welcome to the Tutorials section of the MorphOS Library. In this aisle of the library you can find examples and step by step instructions to help get the most out of your MorphOS experience.

*[[Modifying the User-Startup file]]
*[[Dual-boot MorphOS and MacOS X on a Mac Mini G4]]
*[[How to write Mails with SimpleMail]]
*[[MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide]]

==Development==
In the development section of the MorphOS Library, you can find a collection of helpful articles and tutorials focused on MorphOS software development.

*[[In-depth: The New MorphOS Memory System]]
*[[Reggae: MorphOS multimedia framework]]

==Benchmarks, Reports & Reviews==
*[[jPV's MorphOS 2 Review]]

==Links==
The MorphOS Link Database is a collection of websites that are of interest to all current and potential future users of MorphOS. For easier navigation, we have separated the list of websites into multiple categories.

*[[Links#Community_Portals_.26_Forums|Community Portals]]
*[[Links#File_Repositories|File Repositories]]
*[[Links#Software|Software]]
*[[Links#Developers|Developers]]

==Work in Progress==
*[[ReTooled]]