humtech@ucschu.ucsc.edu (Mark Frost) (04/07/89)
I have a bit of a problem! I just backed up my entire hard disk using the Turtle backup utility in order to reformat my hard disk. (I wanted to try formatting my Seagate ST296N at 1:1 interleave). Well now that I've discovered that I can't format 1:1 (I have ROM8's), I reformatted to 2:1 interleave. Now I need to restore my hard disk from the floppies. I can't figure out how to do this!!! Other than manually copying all of the files off of the floppies I can find no way to do this using Turtle (or any of the support programs). The program "Terrapin" allows me to restore a file which is not helpful. I need to restore the entire hard disk from floppies. Turtle (3.0 I believe is what I have) has only a "backup" option from what I can tell - no "restore" option! Help! Help! I'm practically in a panic. Please someone help me.... e-mail is best if you can reach me... Thanx very much in advance!! Mark Frost Office of the the Computing Coordinator Humanities Division University of California at Santa Cruz Internet: humtech@ucschu.UCSC.EDU Bitnet: humtech@ucschu.bitnet Uucp: ...!ucbvax!ucscc!ucschu!humtech
apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) (04/11/89)
In article <6840@saturn.ucsc.edu> humtech@ucschu.ucsc.edu (Mark Frost) writes: > Other than manually copying all of the files > off of the floppies I can find no way to do this using Turtle (or any of > the support programs). You have hit on the only solution there is: copy the files from floppy to your hard disk. Too bad for you that TOS 1.4 isn't out yet: it'd be a lot faster. Did you know that you can use the desktop to copy a whole floppy to a hard disk, including (recursively) copying directories, by dropping the floppy disk's icon onto the open window of the hard disk's root directory? That'll be fastest. ============================================ Opinions expressed above do not necessarily -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. ...ames!atari!apratt
humtech@ucschu.UCSC.EDU.ucsc.edu (Mark Frost) (04/12/89)
In article <1450@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes: >In article <6840@saturn.ucsc.edu> humtech@ucschu.ucsc.edu (Mark Frost) writes: >> Other than manually copying all of the files >> off of the floppies I can find no way to do this using Turtle (or any of >> the support programs). > >You have hit on the only solution there is: copy the files from floppy >to your hard disk. Too bad for you that TOS 1.4 isn't out yet: >it'd be a lot faster. > >Did you know that you can use the desktop to copy a whole floppy to a >hard disk, including (recursively) copying directories, by dropping the >floppy disk's icon onto the open window of the hard disk's root >directory? That'll be fastest. > >============================================ >Opinions expressed above do not necessarily -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. >reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. ...ames!atari!apratt Well, yes but.... My only gripe about this is what do I do if Turtle broke a large folder up over several disks? Enlighten me if I'm wrong (because it is entirely possible), but when I try to copy a folder to a place where a folder with that name already exists, it wants to overwrite the entire folder. I had lots of folders like this when I did my manual restore. I had to open the folder and copy out each file individually. But then again, I can't really think of a solution to this (at least from the desktop). I think I'm really spoiled because I've used DiskFit on the mac which is truly fantastic. I just assumed that such an application would exist on other machines.... I guess not. Mark Frost Office of the the Computing Coordinator Humanities Division University of California at Santa Cruz Internet: humtech@ucschu.UCSC.EDU Bitnet: humtech@ucschu.bitnet Uucp: ...!ucbvax!ucscc!ucschu!humtech
pvf@bridge2.3Com.Com (Paul V. Fries) (04/15/89)
In article <6840@saturn.ucsc.edu> humtech@ucschu.ucsc.edu (Mark Frost) writes: > .I have a bit of a problem! I just backed up my entire hard disk using the .Turtle backup utility in order to reformat my hard disk. (I wanted to .try formatting my Seagate ST296N at 1:1 interleave). Well now that I've .discovered that I can't format 1:1 (I have ROM8's), I reformatted to 2:1 .interleave. Now I need to restore my hard disk from the floppies. I can't .figure out how to do this!!! Other than manually copying all of the files .off of the floppies I can find no way to do this using Turtle (or any of .the support programs). The program "Terrapin" allows me to restore a file .which is not helpful. I need to restore the entire hard disk from floppies. .Turtle (3.0 I believe is what I have) has only a "backup" option from what I .can tell - no "restore" option! . .Help! Help! I'm practically in a panic. Please someone help me.... No need to panic. Copy the floppies. I, for one, count this as a small blessing. The files can always be copied manually "if all else fails". I wrote myself a restore program, however, to fix up the date and time information when restoring the turtle floppies. It would have been nice if something had been included in the turtle distribution, but I would rather have turtle without restore than no turtle at all.