LZX version, arguments to backup, and backing up over SMB

[A4000_Mad]

moto wrote:
Just kicked off an archive using this command

Ooooooh! This made my brain cell think you had actually started the process mate ;-)

I am unable to confirm it for you as I would just highlight everything and use the 'Lha ADD' function of Dopus 4 myself.

However, after comparing it to another command line it looks like you have an "a" in the wrong place.

This is the command for backing up your existing icons before installing Kens Icons:-

Lha a -a -e -r -x  Icon_Backup Sys:#?.info

(This will put an archive called 'Icon_Backup' in your System partition)


I think you are very wise to your Ram Disk as the initial destination mate :-)

[motorollin]

A4000_Mad wrote:

moto wrote:
Just kicked off an archive using this command

Ooooooh! This made my brain cell think you had actually started the process mate ;-)

I did, but I stopped it since it didn't seem to be doing anything.

A4000_Mad wrote:
I am unable to confirm it for you as I would just highlight everything and use the 'Lha ADD' function of Dopus 4 myself.

Does DOpus give any idea of progress, or at least that it's doing something?

A4000_Mad wrote:
However, after comparing it to another command line it looks like you have an "a" in the wrong place.

According to the LHA usage, options (-a -e -r -x) come before commands (a). I don't think it matters though.

A4000_Mad wrote:
I think you are very wise to your Ram Disk as the initial destination mate :-)

Unfortunately this will only work for my system partition. My main data partition won't fit in my RAM disk, which is why I need to sort an alternative solution. SMB would be good if it works, but still looking for some feedback there.

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moto

[A4000_Mad]

moto wrote:
Does DOpus give any idea of progress, or at least that it's doing something?

Well mine most certainly does! It display "Frozen" and the % of compression as it does the task. When completed it displays:-

"Operation successful."

and

"Press left mouse button to continue"  :-)


I just turned my Workbench into an LHA file in RAM, unpacked it into RAM and then booted into it.

(well, I didn't really boot into it :-D)


In Dopus4 config 'Menus' I have:-

LHA add

AmigaDOS LHA -x a "{d}{RsEnter LHA archive name}" {0}


Flags ticked are:-

CD source

Do all files

Output window

Recursive directories

Rescan destination

[motorollin]

A4000_Mad wrote:
Well mine most certainly does! It display "Frozen" and the % of compression as it does the task.

That's great - thanks. I'll use DOpus to create my backup.

Cheers mate!

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moto

[jasper]

Glad you got it worked out mate

Booted up my Amiga today and looked at my settings for archiving with LHA using Directory Opus which are:

-b64 -D3 -e -F -r a

backed up my workbench partition to Ram: as a test and couldn't see any errors or missing files

the version of LHA i'm using is 1.50

[motorollin]

Just created an archive of my system partition using DOpus and it seemed to work fine, and much faster than from the command line which seemed to just thrash the disk for hours with no visible progress. I then noticed that the command I'm DOpus only had the -x option. I added some more and now it looks like this:

lha -a -e -x a {d}{RsEnter LHA archive name}" {O}

Kicked off another archive. Fingers crossed the backup is good enough for a format and re-copy!

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moto