Archiving the files, not the floppies

[dukes909]

So I am getting closer to archiving the disks I have that are still good, which amazingly, is most of them after 40 years. Anyway, I've been digging up and reading the old posts here about archiving disks, like this one:

 

 

which I found very helpful. While I could do it that way, it would involve creating a spreadsheet or db of what's on what disk (I was not that organized as a teenager back in the day).  Most of my stuff is not single programs on a disk, like commercial games or applications, but collections of stuff I wrote myself or typed in from magazines. What would be more useful to me is the ability to have multiple files (or even better, all the files from all the disks) in a single archive, like on a modern hard drive file system. Is that possible with something like a TNFS connected share via FujiNet? I would love to be able to then access this emulated hard drive, or the like, from Altirra in addition to my 8-bits.  How did the filesystem for hard drives that had much more capacity than an 810 like the Corvus work?  

 

All of my files and disks were originally from an 810 using DOS 2.0, btw.

Cheers

[_The Doctor__]

To get your disks done without all kinds of gymnastics you might go with an Atari disk drive and a SIO 2 PC usb putting all of your disks on a modern computer hard drive, then that partition could be set up to serve all you disks back to your atari using that same cable and  computer. You can also put all of the disks on a TNFS share from that point on as well. The sky is the limit

[TGB1718]

If you have a cart like SIDE 3 / SIDE 2 and probably others too that have SDX, you can load PCLINK

and use 

7 hours ago, _The Doctor__ said:

a SIO 2 PC usb

to copy all the files to one place on your PC, I use that method to back all my files up or copy new files

onto my 8 bits.