MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide - Revision history

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

2010-05-04T19:51:58Z

‎Making the Disk Image Usable as a Regular Disk

Jason: /* Making Your Backup */

2010-05-04T19:51:24Z

‎Making Your Backup

Jason: /* To Restore from Your Bsckups */

2010-05-04T19:51:00Z

‎To Restore from Your Bsckups

Jason: /* To Restore From Your Bsckups */

2010-05-04T19:50:36Z

‎To Restore From Your Bsckups

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

2010-05-04T19:50:20Z

‎Making The Disk Image Usable as a Regular Disk

Jason at 19:48, 4 May 2010

2010-05-04T19:48:04Z

Jason: /* Starting Out: */

2010-05-04T19:47:12Z

‎Starting Out:

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

2010-05-04T19:46:39Z

‎A solution to the Fat32 Problem

Jason: /* To Restore: */

2010-05-04T19:46:07Z

‎To Restore:

Jason at 19:40, 4 May 2010

2010-05-04T19:40:44Z

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 # Quit Kryptos.
-==Making the Disk Image Usable as a Regular Disk==
+==Making The Disk Image Usable As A Regular Disk==
 # Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl

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 # Your new disk image will show up on the desktop, or in My MorhpOS
-==Making Your Backup==
+==Backing Up To Disk Images==
 You may now copy clone your drive to the image.

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 CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!
-==To Restore from Your Bsckups==
+==Restoring From Disk Image Backups==
 # Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl

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 CONGRATULATIONS! You now have perfect backups of your MorphOS drives!
-==To Restore From Your Bsckups==
+==To Restore from Your Bsckups==
 # Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl

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 # Quit Kryptos.
-==Making The Disk Image Usable as a Regular Disk==
+==Making the Disk Image Usable as a Regular Disk==
 # Open SYS:Tools/FileImageCtrl

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

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

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 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 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.

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 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.
+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 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.
+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]
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 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.
+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
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 # 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.
+# 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 filesystem page doesn't matter. 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.