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| 1343.1 | STzip is one thought... | DETOO::HEARN | Time will tell... | Sun Jan 03 1993 22:45 | 13 |
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Ton,
One thought that comes to mind is to use STzip20 (available
on DWEEZL 17.252 if you need one place to find it) and create
"backup sets" to transfer via kermit. STzip will recursively
go through the directories and do everything it finds - that's
one of the suggestions the author (Vincent Pomey) gives an ex-
ample of. You can even specify 'exclude these type' files
( ~*.bak )
Hope it helps,
Rich
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| 1343.2 | | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeffrey A. Lomicka | Mon Jan 04 1993 23:01 | 6 |
| It is possible to call STRANSF from a command file on the VMS side.
So, find a way to make a directory listing of the whole disk, and edit
it into a command file of STRANSF commands, and run that using Whack.
Then go away for the weekend, this code take a while.
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| 1343.3 | ZMODEM ? | UFHIS::BFALKENSTEIN | | Mon Jan 11 1993 10:54 | 8 |
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also ZMODEM will work, because ZMODEM also transmittes the filenames.
You can say ZMODEM send *.*
ZMODEM for the VAX was posted in 9.* somewhere, I believe. On the
Atari it is part of most terminal-programs
Bernd
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| 1343.4 | Backup works but remaining question? | UTRTSC::DRUMMEN | | Tue Jan 12 1993 09:41 | 24 |
| reply -> .1 It took me some troubles to get it work, but after good hints
from Rich Hearn, I got it to work. STZIP20 has a good compression-
ratio which reduces the copy-time for a great part. It is possible
to use an input file of which have to be zipped, but to make the
input-file you would need some kind of directory_listing_program.
reply -> .2 I indeed used a comfile on the vax via STRANSF to copy the zipfiles
which I made with STZIP20. This works great, "automatic".At first I
had a transfer speed of 380 Bytes/sec with a line speed of 19.2 K.
When I adjusted the parameters in Whack like you suggest in the
Whack-manual for 19.2 K I got a speed of 674 Bytes/sec so this
was a good increase. However this is still no more then about
2.4 Megabyte/hour. This would take 43 hours for 104 MB.
What I still need is a good way to dump the data per partion in
a Zip file, and this preferably automatic.
Then you can use STRANSF with a com file to copy it to the VAX.
So the remaining quesion is a directory listing program, which can put
the output in a file, and can scan the entire disk. Then the
procedure is complete.
Thanks to Rich Hearn and Jeff Lomicka.
best regards Ton Drummen
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| 1343.5 | use a command procedure (or BASIC-program) | UFHIS::BFALKENSTEIN | | Wed Jan 13 1993 07:45 | 27 |
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Maybe a solution to your problem: I used to backup my partitions to
a Syquest removable disk with the following steps:
1. I wrote a command-procedure with a Command-Line interpreter (in my
case this was DCL for the ST) which scanned the root-directory of
the partition for folders and called the LZH.TTP to make archives of
the folders and all of their subdirectories (or use ZIP or whatever).
2. in a second pass the procedure called a programm to convert the
*.LZH-archives to self-extracting *.TOS archives.
3. the third pass copied all the *.TOS-archives to the Syquest
Suggestion: replace step 3 by calling ZMODEM with the parameter
"send *.TOS" (or *.LZH) from within the command-procedure
to transfer the files to the VAX. This should automize
your complete backup-needs. (the archiving needs some
time, though, but for a weekly overnight-backup this
should be ok...). To speed up the archiving you could
leave out step 2 (the conversion to self-extracting
archives. This is only to simplify the Restore because
the only thing needed then is to doubleclick the archives.
Bernd
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