Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!oliveb!pyramid!infmx!etude!greggy From: greggy@informix.com (greg yachuk) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: BACKUP PROGRAMS WITH COMPRESSION Message-ID: Date: 12 Oct 90 19:43:13 GMT References: <21700009@sunc7> <612@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl> Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News) Organization: Informix Software, Inc. Lines: 28 derek@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl (derek) writes: >fireman@sunc7.cs.uiuc.edu writes: >> LOOKING FOR: PD BACKUP PROGRAM WITH COMPRESSION >>Are there any public domain backup programs which compress the data? I've >>been unable to find any in the pcsig collection. >Try ZOOX, an extention of ZOO. It is available on SIMTEL. ALso get the ZOO >package. This will solve the second part of the problem - use stuff and pipe >to zoo to update an archive. I have written (but not posted) a program called ZOOBACK. It compresses into a ZOO file which can span several floppies. It is based on Zoo, so is not Public Domain. Rahul Dhesi holds the copyright for most of it, but I placed the code which I wrote in the public domain (if I remember correctly). I've been using it for all my backups for about two years now, with no problems. If anyone is interested, send me mail. If enough are interested, I'll post. -greg -- Greg Yachuk Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA 92025 greggy@informix.com | {uunet,pyramid}!infmx!greggy (415) 926-6300 --- I ask my brain for some assistance ... ---