How do you copy a Macintosh Classic hard disk image over the network? Well, that’s a mighty question to be asking. How old of a Macintosh Classic are you talking about?
For the oldest of Macintosh Classic computers, “copying over the network” means copying over a serial connection. If you haven’t played around with the serial connection on your Macintosh yet, I’d recommend starting out with Macintosh Kermit. This will work on most older classic Macintoshes, except for the very oldest 128K Macintosh. However, let’s remember that very old Macintosh does not have internal hard disk drives! So, if you do happen to be the odd-ball that has an external hard disk drive connected to that very old Macintosh, consider yourself very lucky.
20190404/DuckDuckGo kermit macintosh serial
20190404/http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/mac.html
20190404/http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/usingmackermit.pdf
20190404/http://www.kermitproject.org/mac.html
Unfortunately, this far, Mac Kermit will only allow you to copy files across the serial connection. I have to keep looking for methods for copying a hard disk drive image over a serial connection. Of course you can’t store hard disk drive image of itself locally in a file or on an external floppy disk. Or, maybe I should simply roll up my sleeves and prepare to develop my own Macintosh Classic software to go do this.
For newer “Classic” Macintoshes, you’ll find that they have Ethernet capabilities. For these, there are a number of more modern programs to assist you in copying hard disk images over TCP/IP. Check out these links for some good information.
20190404/http://www.savagetaylor.com/2018/09/10/setting-up-your-vintage-classic-68k-macintosh-using-softmac/
20190404/http://www.savagetaylor.com/2018/05/28/setting-up-your-vintage-classic-68k-macintosh-creating-your-own-boot-able-disk-image/
20190404/http://www.savagetaylor.com/2018/01/19/setting-up-your-vintage-classic-68k-macintosh-using-basilisk-ii/
Also, if you’re into doing vintage computing on physical hardware, but with some nifty shortcuts, check out SCSI2SD adapter that allows you to use an SD card in place of a true vintage SCSI hard drive.
20190404/http://www.savagetaylor.com/2018/01/05/setting-up-your-vintage-classic-68k-macintosh-using-a-scsi2sd-adapter/