Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!deccrl!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!phigate!ehviea!sun4dts!derek From: derek@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl (derek) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Strange zoo problem Message-ID: <695@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl> Date: 20 Mar 91 11:52:49 GMT References: <27DAF021.3ABD@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu> Lines: 48 fireman@sunc5.cs.uiuc.edu (Neil Feiereisel) writes: >Without changing anything, I suddenly got the following error message when >doing my backups using zoo. >ERROR: Could not open .... >and I get this error for every file in the archive. >I've been using the following batch file for doing the incremental backups: >stuff / -modified ! -name *.bak ! -name temp.* ! -size +1000 > temp.bak >zoo aIunP diffback erase temp.bak >This batch file was working fine - all of the sudden, I get this error >message every time. The size of diffback is only about 700K right now. >I've got 6MB left on my hard disk and a chkdsk revealed no problems. Not >only that, I used Norton Disk Doctor and checked every single sector on the >hard disk and have no problems. >Can anyone shed any light on this? Even a few ideas of how to pursue this >strange problem would be helpful. >Thanks in advance, >-- >Neil Feiereisel e-mail: fireman@uiuc.edu OR fireman@cs.uiuc.edu I *think* there is a bug in zoo. I had a problem with zoo archives over about 700/800 K. I forget what the error message was, but it certainly was a strange one. There are three things that you can do: 1. Use different zoo archives. dback1.zoo, dback2.zoo etc. (not so good that) 2. Use a different archiver - pkzip and zipper for example (available on Simtel: PD1: ZIPPER13.ZIP B 13153 901130 Build ZIPs of limited size from multiple files 3. Wait for Mr. Rahul Dhesi to issue the next version of zoo, which he promised to do sometime this year. Not such a useful reply, but since no one seems to have posted on this, perhaps this is better than nothing? Best Regards, Derek Carr DEREK@DTS.INE.PHILIPS.NL Philips I&E TQV-5 Eindhoven, The Netherlands Standard Disclaimers apply.