Hacking Can the WBFS be ghosted and restored ?

[TeenTin]

Many thanks !

 

[tomazzzi]

???

Why wouldn t he ?

 

[joda]

Easier yet just extract all isos with a script, like for example the bash+perl oneliner:

for a in `wbfs ls 2>&1 | perl -pe 's/^(\S+).*/$1/'`; do wbfs extract $a; done

Which as root puts all isos in the current dir.

That can later be reversed with:

for a in `ls *iso`; do wfsd add $a; done

to add all isos to the currently active drive.

 

[fogbank]

Yes, I have done it.

BUT...

I have a 60GB USB hard drive with about 17GB of games on it. Since Ghost cannot read the volume information it had to image the whole 60GB drive. I didn't have 60GB free on my local drive so I imaged it to a network drive.

I then formatted the drive to NTFS. I used Ghost to restore the image. It took over 4 hours (from a networked drive) and resulted in an error at the end of the process. Still the drive now lists all of the games, and I was even able to extract one. I haven't tried it again with the USB loader yet.

So I would say it works, but it's not ideal...