I want to pack a partition with about 8.5 GB on data onto a 6 GB usb harddisk.
So it must be packed.
I am using peperoni from the aminet and tried the lzx and the zip pack method.
Both fail the .lzx just stops on 3% and the zip makes a non zip file at least it won't unpack either with voodoo or peperoni.
Has this something to do with the size off the partition.
Or do i need other lzx/lha/zip program.
Or is peperoni buggy?Like it's gui..

you should split the backup into chunks as mos cant handle filesize over 2gb.

Unfortunately, i couldnt figure out how to do multivolume archive with lha, it ask for volume 2 and lha doesnt make it.

from ram: trying this :

Ram Disk:> lha -V400 a ram:test (would make multivolume 400kb chunks)
LhA Freeware Version 2.7.6
Copyright ? 1991-94 by Stefan Boberg.
Copyright ? 1998,1999 by Jim Cooper and David Tritscher.
Copyright ? 2000-2004 by Ralph Schmidt and Harry Sintonen.

Adding files to archive 'ram:test.lha':

LhA: Unable to open file `ram:test.l01'!! (wrong volume?)

also tried Diavolo Backup (http://amigazeux.net/diavolo/) but didnt find a way to set the archive sizes there either

I remember having problems backuping lots of data on lha, but zip did the trick. remember zip doesnt preserve attributes.

MMhh I don't like typing these things.
Maybe I'll just archive it in a few times then.
Too bad there is no nice solution for this.
Or I can search me an other harddisk for backup which can hold it without packing.

found an older lha exe that works, http://free.prohosting.com/~nak1/FILES/lha

edit:
suddenly this site borked, so i put it here too http://catohagen.fastmail.fm/lha2.1

now this worked,
Ram Disk:> lha2.1 -m -r -V200 a ram:test (-r is Collect files recursively)

this created 16 200k files in ram: but you had to press any key to continue onto next mulitvolume so add -m and it will
create them all. I would go for 50 or 100 megabyte sizes

good luck



[ Edited by catohagen on 2007/7/17 20:49 ]

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Ofcourse there is a nice solution, it's called Diavolo Backup, it supports XPK (of which you should be able to find my native MorphOS port somewhere) to do compression (I recommend xpkGZIP for generally good and fast compression (xpkBZP2 if speed is no issue), both of which are included in my archive)...


- CISC

will diavolo backup just make a ~5-6gig file then ?

XPK for MorphOS is here with source.

[ Edited by Golem on 2007/7/20 16:52 ]

Nice go this works!
At least I did a part off a partition with it and so far so good.
Packs fast and does a great job on gaining Mbytes.
As soon as I have some cash to spare I'll paypal some for your effort.

Quote:

Cool! MOS native XPK libraries. Now, all i need is an xloadSeg patch. Is it safe to use the 68k patch on MOS? I don't want to mess things up.

Sure.

k