[softwarelist] Re: SparkFS 1.41 (RISC OS) - Zip size max?
From: Dave Symes <dfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 21:40:20 +0100
In article <8bdbede04e.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Martin Wuerthner <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[Snippy]
> When attached to an Iyonix or a RiscPC with Castle USB, no problem.
Martin, As you will have seen from my previous postings Unipod is
mentioned as the USB in my machine.
> > The whole point of that exercise being to obviate the need to archive
> > RO stuff before backing it to a Win PC formatted Hard drive or similar.
> There is always the option of using a network attached storage device
> and SunFish (if NFS is supported) or LanMan[98] (for the SMB protocol)
> for backups. Then you can even share the disc between platforms.
> Martin
I don't understand that at all... Considering I've already mentioned in
passing that I backup to a PC hardrive. "...and save all the work of
archiving before transferring to the Win PC backup drive."
At present I have an external USB Hardrive connected to the XP PC, on to
which I backup XP PC stuff and via LanMan98, and stuff from this SARPC,
but in order to do that I *have* to archive (Uncompressed) all the stuff
from this machine, otherwise it ends up in crap order, like no filetypes.
So how does your suggestion obviate the need to archive RO stuff before
shoving it over to the shared backup disk?
That's the only reason I want to RO format a USB HD.
Dave S
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