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Date:	Mon, 8 Oct 2001 14:00:46 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:
>
> Feathers all a-ruffled?

Yeah, sorry, it's not you. People have been a-ruffling my feathers all
weekend.

> > 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.
>
> You should be able to do this with the existing
> zip argument structure. Have you tried?
>
> zip -r zipa \a*
>
> BA2K can do this with a specification like:
>
> \a*\*

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:

zip -r "zip " \" "* (for dirs beginning with a space)
zip -r zip! \!* (for dirs beginning with !)
zip -r zip""" \"""* (for dirs beginning with ")
zip -r zip# \#* (for dirs beginning with "#")
etc

And any time you start saying what you *are* going to back up then some
day, some how, there's going to be some file that gets left out of the
specification.

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.

- Peter

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