SFS errors out of the blue

[LoadWB]

I'm finding the whole SFS thing rather confusion.  I swear that I was using a 2.x version where I was previously using a 1.x version.  Or maybe I went from SFS1 to SFS2.  Sheesh, I dunno.  I'll have to fire up the 4000 to find out for certain.

But as far as usability, I have been using SFS for many many moons on my DH1 partition which houses all of my Internet utilities such as YAM, AWeb, etc.  I've only recently been using IBrowse, but not heavily.  YAM certainly seemed to beat the crap out of the drive and SFS is CONSIDERABLY faster than FFS handling my email, especially when moving or deleting messages.

I have never had an SFS problem.  So, maybe I fall under the lucky category.  It's been with me as far back as I can remember, back to my A530-powered 500, 4040 A4000D, and CSMKIII A4000D.  Mind you, I've also never used IDE drives, so maybe that helps?

[LoadWB]

@moto:

I use lzx for such backups.  Of the top of my head I cannot remember the command line options, but you'll want to recurse into directories, maximum compression (if you need it,) and retain all file attributes.

I make sure that my current working directory is the parent of the directory tree I want to backup, and use #? as my filename pattern.

Follow my advice and you'll probably have to play with a couple of commands to get it right.  I'm sure someone will give you something more definitive... I hope!  :-D

[EDIT]: Also, test your archive when you're done creating it.  That way you can be sure that the file will extract and that you got all the files you were expecting.  Playing with the file mask has always been my Achilles heel, as in some programs #? seems to ONLY get files and no directories.