Backup Options for Older Macs

 

 

Anyone know of some good HD backup software available somewhere for

>Classic Macs.

The program which I have used and which works most reliably (in my opinion)

is "Fast Disk" which is a part of Norton Utilities. It runs under S7, but

not under S6. I have used it successfully on my 4 meg Classic.

Failing that, "Stuffit Lite", will save folders on your HD as segmented

floppy disks. This program is easiest to use, however, you must have

enough RAM in the target machine for the process to work. I found this out

the hard way - I created segmented images using my 32 meg IIci, and found I

could not unpack the archive on my 4 meg classic.

The "ShrinkWrap" program may also be used to create disk images, but it is

fiddly.

"DropStuff" is the program you use to create "SEAs" - Self-Extracting

Archives. It needs S7.

If you are under S6, there are several programs which will encode files

into the "ZIP" format, such as "ZipIt" and "PKZip". A drawback with these

is that they are not always mutually interchangeable, and you find that you

get confused as to which ZIP program you have used, and then you find you

cannot recover the the archived file.

Perhaps the easiest way if Memory is an issue, is to encode the files into

MacBinary format and upload them to your webspace using "Fetch". This

works under S6, and S7.

http://www.myriad-online.com/mac/macbinaryii.sit.hqx

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