Backing up to a Mac drive

[motorollin]

I've turned on Windows File Sharing on my iBook so I can use smbfs on my Amiga to mount a volume which connects to a shared folder on the iBook. I want to use this to back up my Amiga, but I'm worried about just dragging the files over. Will I lose any file attributes if I just copy them into a directory on the Mac? Will they work the same if I copy them back on to the Amiga?

Thanks for any advice.

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moto

[motorollin]

Thanks for the replies guys.

I had thought of archiving the files first. I use AnArchiver to create an LHA archive of my OS3.9: partition, and copied it over to the Mac. Unfortunately when I tried to unarchive the file I got errors (can't remember what they were - CRC errors I think). I tried creating the archive again but the same thing happened.

I'm not 100% comfortable copying files directly to the Mac share as I have had problems with file becoming read only when copying this back to the Amiga. Not a massive problem, just very inconvenient.

Suggestions for a good, reliable, archiver would be much appreciated.

Thanks

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moto

[motorollin]

I don't really mind what format the archive is in, as WinRAR on Windows supports most archives (including Zip and LHa), and MacOS supports most archive formats natively. So really I just need a good reliable archiving application (with a progress bar - I'm impatient :-) )

I've heard Peperoni is good, so I'm going to try it tonight. Any other suggestions for better progs would be appreciated!

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moto

[motorollin]

I just downloaded the version of Lha Thomas linked to (thanks!) and copied it to C:Lha. I also downloaded Peperoni from Aminet.

I ran Peperoni and dragged my OS3.9 volume on to it, and created a new Lha archive in RAM:. Copied over to my Mac, and attempted to extract it, and when it got to about 60% I got an error that Stuffit Expander had unexpectedly quit.

I copied the file from the Mac to my Mark: partition and opened it in Unarc. I tried to unarchive it to a directory in RAM:, but got an error at about 60% that it couldn't decompress the file ''. (that's two inverted commas (or a quote) and a full stop).

I thought maybe the file had been damaged in transit, or modified somehow by being on the Mac filesystem, so I tried unarchiving the original Lha file I created in RAM: (which has never been copied to the Mac or to a different partition) but got the same error!

Am I doing something stupid?

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moto