Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!philmds!achel!derek
From: derek@achel.UUCP (derek)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO/ARC Discussion
Message-ID: <35@achel.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 11:21:29 GMT
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Reply-To: derek@achel.UUCP (Derek Carr)
Organization: Philips I&E DTS Eindhoven
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Keywords: Zoo Arc Backup
Summary: Archiver as floppy backup facility

In all the discussion of the archivers that has been going on, I have
seen nothing of the limitation of ARC, PKARC and ZOO when used on a
floppies-only system (does *everybody* use hard disks? :-)). That is:
you can only use about half of the disk, because on updating the 
archive, the archiver copies the archive _onto the same disk_ while
doing the update. 

OK, so this is a good security measure, but is there any way to persuade
the archiver to do its back up onto another disk? Or is there a way to 
automate the archiving facility so that I can fill, or nearly fill a disk
with one or more archives, that I have overlooked?

This question really relates to using an archiver as a substitute for
backup on a floppy system, to archive all those utilities down-loaded
from bulletin boards, without using a one-for-one copy of all my utility
diskettes.
 
Derek Carr - Philips I&E, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.