Creating a huge archive

[ChaosLord]

I have made huge archives many times.

The secret trick is to assign T: to your HD somewhere like this:

Assign T: Work:


Also I advise you to create the archive directly onto your amiga somewhere if you have the space for it.  I am afraid it will take over 24 hours if you do it over the network.  But you are free to try whatever you like. :-)  Your smbfs may be new/faster/better than mine.

Also I like to addbuffers 2048 to wherever T: gets assigned and also the partition you are archiving.  This speeds things up.


And make sure you are using a RELIABLE version of lha.  Any lha 1.x is good.  Most lha 2.x will create corrupt archives of huge data.  I learned that the hard way. :cry:

[ChaosLord]

motorollin wrote:
Too late to use LZX now, it's still archiving 12 hours later and I don't want to stop it :-)

1. I forgot to tell you to install PoolMem in your ss, else ur memory will get fragged and lha will slow to a crawl.

2. lzx is much slower at creating archives than lha.  I have tested and documented this many times.