In message <be6555e04e.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Martin Wuerthner <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In message <13a54ce04e.martinv@xxxxxx> > 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. > >> > > [snip] > > IMHO I'd rather leave the USB stick alone (if it is flash it is not > > advisable to change the partition format) > > Franke wrote "external USB hard drive", so it is not a USB stick and > not Flash. Nevertheless, I cannot see his problem - either, the hard > drive is directly attached via USB and DOS formatted, then it is > limited to 2GB anyway, so even if SparkFS could create larger Zip > files it would not have helped. Or, the drive is RISC OS formatted or > it is is attached via the network, then the filetypes are preserved > even without zipping. > > > and use !FCFS to backup my RISC OS stuff. Without compression it is > > quite fast and it preserves my filetypes. > > FCFS used to be nice, but Frank is on RISC OS 5, so it is of no use. > Besides, if the problem is that the overall data is larger than 2GB, > then it will not help anyway. > > Martin I was just thinking it's quite a good idea to use the most popular filing-system but then again You will lose Your filetypes as soon as You touch (copy, move) those files with, say, Windows. I read 'backup' and completely missed the 'hard drive' part. What exactly is the point in making backups on a _hard-drive_ that is mobile but can't be taken anywhere? Regards -- Martin Vethake Uffenkamp Computer Systeme snailmail: Uffenkamp Computer Systeme Gartenstr. 3 D-32130 Enger-Dreyen Inhaber: Kai Uffenkamp USt.-ID-Nr. DE 125 408 721 email : martinv@xxxxxx web : http://www.ucs.de/ voice : +49-5224-978075 fax : +49-5224-978076