artifect (02 Sep, 2004 05:19): ANy advice on how to or what software to use to clone OS2 hard disk? My current ghost version doesnt seems to recognise the OS2 file format when booted up. thanks.
[/quote] I'm using a single, small and efficient program to do my server backup. You must create the partitions in the secondary harddisk and use a program called DSYNC to copy data from first to second. It will copy everything and everything (even locked things). No need for floppy/CD boot. Here I have two 40GB harddisks. They were partitioned and formated equaly and as if only one of them would be used (that is: both of them has partitions C:, D:, E: F: and G:). Then I plugged the main harddisk as master (drive letters assigned as C: D: E: F; and G:) and the secondary (backup) harddisk as slave. OS/2 (4.5 and above) will automatically reassing the partitions of the slave harddisk as H: I: J: K: and L:. I configured DSYNC to make regular copies of C: to H:, D: to I:, E: to J:, F: to K: and G: to L:. This way, if my Master harddisk suddenly dies, I can just disable it and the system will boot from the backup harddisk as if nothing happened. Also, if data is corrupted in the master disk, I can boot the secondary (they both are shown in Boot Manager, since both has BootManagers installed and their boot partitions are added to the respective boot managers!) and make the same process I use to backup Master to Slave to restore Slave to Master. Plain simple and everything you need is for free. OF COURSE you can do the same using only one HardDisk (using partitions), but this would not be "that" safe. |