[softwarelist] Re: SparkFS 1.41 (RISC OS) - Zip size max?
- From: Martin Devon <martin.devon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 22:01:02 +0100
In message <4ee0f8aa76dfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Dave Symes <dfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
Surely there must be something astray with your LanMan98 setup, eg do
you have a current Mappings file inside LanMan98?
--
Martin R. Devon MSc
Consulting Engineer, Box, Wilts, UK
RISC OS in the Timber Frame Housing Industry
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