In message of 9 May, Martin Vethake <martinv@xxxxxx> wrote:
In message <9ad1ebdf4e.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Martin Wuerthner <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <4edc1b0ac4frank@xxxxxxxx>
> Frank Watkinson <frank@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > While aiming to make backup to an external USB hard drive, I created a
> > Zip file so that filetypes would be preserved.
>
> Using SparkFS? Does that not take ages? I do not really think that
> this approach is sensible. But I cannot see why it should be necessary
> anyway. Would it not be easier to format your external USB hard drive
> to RISC OS format? Actually, if it is bigger than 2GB you will need to
> do that anyway to make use of its size. So, I cannot see any situation
> where that would make sense unless you have a directly attached
> external FAT-formatted USB hard drive with 2GB or less that you also
> want to use on a non-RISC OS machine and that seems very unlikely.
>
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IMHO I'd rather leave the USB stick alone (if it is flash it is not
advisable to change the partition format) and use !FCFS to backup
my RISC OS stuff. Without compression it is quite fast and it preserves
my filetypes.
Looks interesting <http://www.craig-wood.com/nick/fcfs/index.html>. Do
you know if it will (a) work with RISC OS 5 on an Iyonix and (b) if it
will handle images larger than the 2 Gbyte barrier?
