ScuzzBlog: Diaries June 2024 Entry 14th June 2024: Post 1: EZ-Tower Backup - An Amiga Tsunami. EZ-Tower Backup - An Amiga Tsunami. I don't think any amount of pictures and words could describe the chaos my recent home repairs have had on my Amiga world. To me it was going to have minimal impact but sadly dragging desks off walls and moving kit and disconnecting my web of wires caused more chaos than you can imagine. I had decided to leave matters in the workshop a few days but being without much of the archive left me a little deficient. The tower backup was going to be a challenge, I knew that. The number of files and disks meant a lot of travelling backwards and forwards. Trouble was a lot of what I had had already been replicated and so it was a case of needing all my kit up and running. You would think that would have been easy. Seriously I have only tonight completed the re-connecting of the Amigas in the Workshop. The last of my A1200s, my best'est and most precious had a hiccup with the one SCSI drive, but a few moments under the bonnet and some tender words did the trick. Amazing that after some thirty years she still powers up and works just fine. I do love my first A1200. Life wouldn't be the same without her. The blasted tower on the other hand is just a recipe for disaster. It is not that she is unloved, it is just that she would be way more comfortable in a proper Amiga case. I know she has all the PC benefit, but she is such a mess, and sadly a mess of her own making. Guess I'm stuck with it. She works, after a fashion. I have used the tower as a general dumping ground for all those music files, archived files and video projects. She has some very large drives and has ZIP and HD Floppy on hand. She is a dream to access information, but to transfer to other machines a pig. Simply finding the space and availability on other machines sent an Amiga Tsunami of data out across loads of machines. I was just amazing how many computers I've used this last couple of weeks. And this on the back of my chaos from the recent works. I struggled on and eventually got everything I needed onto the emulator and also backed up for use by other Amigas. Sadly I haven't been able to get the emulator to run the tower WB. I sense the IDE-Fix is stopping the process. I'm too worn out at the moment to take matters further. I wish I hadn't added such large images of Lara Croft to the WB. They do take up a fat load of memory. Shouldn't grumble. I have been creating my very own Lara Croft images on my AI Art site and they have come out remarkably well. Maybe too well. Anyhoo I have no idea where I am at the moment. A day with the hoover tomorrow and a mountain of disks to put back, including quite a few ZIP disks. I have to say after all the fun and games it really is a wonderful feeling when all the Amigas are gently ticking away in the background, happy as 'pigs in muck'. I guess I better go eat something before I fall over myself. Happy days. EZ-Tower Backup - An Amiga Tsunami.

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