aadm@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Atkins D. Michael) (06/27/91)
we have been using FASTBACK to transfer data between 20-30 sites across the state for sometime. we actually have about 130 sites, but the rest have not been pushed to purchase fastback and therefore we have been using pkarc and dos backup. i am looking at data that may reach 30 to 60 meg and will not fit onto 1 diskette hence pkarc alone won't work. needless to say, not everyone uses the same version of dos (3.3 in most, 4.01 in some with >300 meg drives). we need to have everyone using the same consistant backup method (because of a new shell menu that we are creating), but fastback has come out with several incompatible versions over the last few months (yet none seem to have corrected at least one very serious bug/oversight). it is a nightmare trying to get everyone upgraded (all sites are independent school districts with their own levels of red tape) and this is only a few sites. by the time everyone has upgraded, anotherversion is out - another site has decided to get fastback, receive the new one and everyone is off to the races again trying to get to the HIGHEST common denominator. (by the way, i have talked to the high mucky-mucks at fifth generation and while they are sympathetic to the problem, i need a cure, not a promise.) now for my question - i would like to find a vanilla fastback-like procedure. maybe a shell that would work with pkarc/pkzip/et. that would allow consecutive disks for backup and that i could share with all sites reguardless of dos version. and leads/suggestions/recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (06/27/91)
In article <1991Jun26.205629.27694@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> aadm@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Atkins D. Michael) writes:
now for my question - i would like to find a vanilla fastback-like
procedure. maybe a shell that would work with pkarc/pkzip/et. that
would allow consecutive disks for backup and that i could share
with all sites reguardless of dos version.
Use zoox. You tell it the maximum size file you want, and it will
fill up that file, then nuke the last file it added. It will also prompt
before creating the next file, allowing you to insert a new floppy disk.
FTP grape.ecs.clarkson.edu:pub/msdos/bin4/zoox2exe.exe.
The best thing about it is that you can use any old version of zoo to
extract the files. You don't need to have zoox to extract.
Plus, it's free!
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aadm@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Atkins D. Michael) writes: >now for my question - i would like to find a vanilla fastback-like >procedure. maybe a shell that would work with pkarc/pkzip/et. that >would allow consecutive disks for backup and that i could share >with all sites reguardless of dos version. >and leads/suggestions/recommendations would be greatly >appreciated. It's not particularly pretty (but then again, it doesn't sound like that really matters to you), but you could use PKZIP (et al) and then some kind of SPLIT utility (such as my own SPLIT.EXE) that will split up the big archive into floppy sized pieces. As I say, this isn't particularly pretty, but it does work. I use a variation of it on a regular basis. -- (Another fine mess brought to you by valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu)
mnrausch@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Martin Rausche) (06/27/91)
Give ARJ a try. This packer can create multiple volumes. You can get it from SIMTEL20. Hope that helps. Martin. --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Martin Rausche | | EMail: mnrausch@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de | | Trust me, I know what I'm doing -- Sledge Hammer | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------