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Date:	Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:58:20 PDT
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Backup to hard drive not allowed ?

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In <3BC213F4.4D5B@peterskye.com>, on 10/08/01
at 02:00 PM, Peter Skye said:

>Yes, I can do that. There's a bit of logistics involved because some of
>my files and directories don't start with 0-9, A-Z so I'd end up with a
>couple hundred lines of zip commands for the root and another couple
>hundred lines of zip commands for the big subdirectory:

Not really:

/* rexx */
letters = xrange()
do i = 2, length(letters)
ch = substr(letters, i, 1)
'zip -r "zip' || ch || " \" || ch || '"*'
end

I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to bypass illegal filename
characters and fix any typos I might have. You could just number the zips
using the index and be done with long file names.

You could even bring your system to it's knees (or lower) and run the zips
in parallel.

>I can write a Rexx wrapper to do the above using SysFileTree, but what I
>*want* is a package solution and I haven't found a suitable one yet.

You could, but you don't want to.

Of course, you've pretty much convinced me that backing up to tape is
easier.

Steven

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