Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wuarchive!uunet!fub!tmpmbx!lime!techno From: techno@lime.in-berlin.de (Frank G. Dahncke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: archiving/backups Message-ID: Date: 22 Jan 91 00:58:14 GMT References: <14749@milton.u.washington.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: LIME Systems featuring a TOGA Party Lines: 30 ramsiri@blake.u.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) writes: >I am trying to decided which archiving program will do the >best job as well as handle a large argument list: >I have a set of files (400+, abuot 4.5MB) that I am constantly accessing >and updating... generally, each time i edit a file, i save >it to two places.. this takes some time.. i would prefer to run >a gulam script at the end of my session that would COPY >one set of files into an archived set of the same files.. >refresh them etc.. Problem is not knowing which program >can handle a directory with a set of about 9 subdirectories and >several hundred files... Use ARC 6.02 ! ARC has a facility to handle scripts that tell it which files to use. Theses scripts can be as long as you like. BTW, I do my backups this way and never have had any problems. Any troubles, mail me. Hope this helps, Techno k>ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu -- | techno@zelator.in-berlin.de ||| Please do not e-mail from outside Germany ! | | techno@lime.in-berlin.de / | \ Hardcore ST user ! ====================== | | Nothing that's real is ever for free, you just have to pay for it sometime. | | (Al Stewart) |