[iyonix-support] Re: Network filing system problem

  • From: Jeremy Nicoll - freelists iyo only <jn.flists.73@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 16:39:21 +0000

rickman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 
> I am trying to backup my Iyonix (5.16 flashed) onto a NAS drive and am 
> experiencing not a little difficulty.
> A whole slew of problems are a result of illegal characters in the 
> RISC OS file names. This leads either to a screw up of the the file 
> name or an abort of the backup.

You might find it easier to wrap files into a zipped archive first.  If you
don't want the space saving you can sometimes configure zippers not to do
any compression, but still (obviously) store the data and relationships
between the files, in the archive.

-- 
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own

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