Creating a huge archive

[motorollin]

I have a partition with over 1GB of data. I need to create an archive of it on my Mac. I have mounted an smbfs share which I can write to. I am using the following command:

lha -r a mac:archive.lha hd1:#?

The file is created with a size of 1 byte and my RAM gradually shrinks, but the lha on the Mac never gets any bigger. I have successfully used this method with a smaller partition (about 45MB). I'm assuming the problem is because size of the data is bigger than the amount of available RAM. Is there any other way of making an archive which will allow me to create such a large file?

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moto

[motorollin]

Ahhhh, so that's why it fill up RAM:, because it creates the archive in T: :-) I'll assign T: to Work: and try again. I don't have another partition large enough to hold the archive. Can I create it on the same partition? E.g.:

lha -r a hd1:archive.lha hd1:#?

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moto

[motorollin]

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

@Keropi
I would try that, but the HDD is SCSI and I don't have access to a PC (let alone one with SCSI support).

This is a one-off, so leaving it archiving across the network is acceptable just this once even if it takes 24 hours.

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moto

[motorollin]

Thanks :-) Is extracting the archive a good enough test of whether the data inside it is valid? Or is there any way to compare the contents of the archive with the original files to check them?

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moto

[motorollin]

hamtronix wrote:
theres probably copyright material in that archive so this thread should be removed

WTF? It's a backup of my own hard drive you know?

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moto

[motorollin]

Well I extracted both of the archives and no errors occurred, except for a few files in the archived MakeCD drawer which said something like the file could not be created or found or something. Not really a problem as I can just reinstall it. I'm starting to move stuff in to their right locations and haven't found any duff files yet so I suppose it's ok :-)

Thanks for the help

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moto