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Date:	Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:21:58 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Backup to hard drive not allowed ?

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> if you set the backups well within the limits of your
> backup tool, the amount of administration is minimal.

You gotta be kidding. I'm adding directories and data sets on-the-fly.
Even if I _knew_ what directories I would have tomorrow and the size of
their trees I don't think I want to manually administer what goes into
each archive.

> > ... the maximum file size is for HPFS386 and for JFS?
>
> What I did find was:
>
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/tools/zip/info-zip/FAQ.html
>
> It has some interesting comments on InfoZip capacities.

Steven, thank you. That's a good table and I see another problem -- the
Zip limitation of 65K files per archive. In the main partition on my
main workstation I have 110K files, about half of them in one
directory. (No, it's _not_ the Priscilla's-Private-Party directory!)

It would be a lot easier to manually administer the backup archive
breakpoints if I could say:

any root directory < 'D' goes into arc1.zip
'D' =< 'L' goes into arc2.zip
'L' =< 'LM' goes into arc3.zip
'LM' =< 'R' goes into arc4.zip
etc.

I think the old DOS Fastback allowed you to do that, and maybe Back
Again/2000 does too -- I'll go check the documentation. XCOPY and Zip
don't allow it.

- Peter

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