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- From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
- Subject: Re: Using the GTAK software (was Re: Backup Progs for HPFS)
- References: <713836152snx@juvat.UUCP> <1992Aug15.141310.19972@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <GHENNIGA.92Aug16211502@ampere.ampere>
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- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 05:33:58 GMT
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- In article <GHENNIGA.92Aug16211502@ampere.ampere> ghenniga@NMSU.Edu writes:
- >
- >Could someone using the GTAK software tell me how to backup to floppies,
- >with compression, or at least how YOU are doing it? I tried it with the
- >-S option but this seems to use the number of bytes read rather than the
- >number of bytes written, not the same when compression is used. It creates
- >the files name.001, name.002, etc. on the floppies but when the floppy gets
- >full it says "device full" and starts writing name.00# files, with zero
- >length, to the floppy. I can change the floppy, after OS/2 pops up an error
- >that the incorrect device is in my floppy drive, and continue but I'm not
- >convinced it is backing up properly?
-
- I was wrong when I wrote it works on floppies *with* compression. It
- works either on floppies or with compression. Your observation is
- correct. Without compression, you should use -M to indicate it's a multi
- volume backup. It will then use the same file name on each floppy so you
- have to label them carefully.
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
-
- /* Kai Uwe Rommel --- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de */
-
- DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
- handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams
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