[Coco] [color computer] archiving or backing up a hard drive

[Bob Devries]

George,

Here's the command line for using LHA to create archives with full 
pathnames:

lha a -rxp /r0/nameofarchive DIRECTORY/*

Replace /r0/nameofarchive with your destination archive name, and 
DIRECTORY/* with your source directory. I just tested this with LHA Version 
2.11, and it works.

To verify that it has worked, you need to use the following command:

lha v /r0/nameofarchive.lzh

Hope that helps.

--
Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George's Coco Address" <yahoo at dvdplayersonly.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] [color computer] archiving or backing up a hard drive


> From: "Robert Gault"
>
>> George's Coco Address wrote:
>>><snip>
>>> What I wanted to do was use LHA to archive each directory in the root, 
>>> but it won't do subdirectories. This means I would have to go to the 
>>> lowest subdirectory and archive it's contents, then move up and archive 
>>> that archive and the files in that directory and then move up one 
>>> directory and .... well you get the idea, I think.
>>>
>> ><snip>
>>
>> If you are using the version by Haruyasu Yoshizaki (lha + xlh), then you 
>> are mistaken. LHA will easily do subdirectories if you ask it to.
>>
>> Type lha [ENTER]  and you will get the complete syntax for lha. Notice 
>> the Option "r: Recursively collect files". That's what you need along 
>> with the command "a: Add files" to get subdirectories.
>>
>> Note that options must be preceded with a - sign.
>
>
> I must be an idiot.
>
> LHA, when not given input says...
>
> LHA v2.11:  File Archive              Copyright (c) Haruyasu Yoshizaki, 
> 1988-91
> LHA OS9 v2.11c  by E. M. Krenciglowa 1993-94        UNLZH  by N. Rheaume 
> 1992
> Usage: LHA <command> [-option[-+012|WDIR]] <archive[.lzh]> [DIR/] 
> [filespecs]
>
>
> What is -+012?
> What is [filespecs]
>
> So as soon as I sent my original message on this subject, I went to RTSI 
> to see if I could find something to do this task. I found LHA and the 
> !DOCS!. Great, I thought...
>
> In looking through it, I found what I thought I needed but it looks sort 
> of like a MSDOS version
>
>>From the manual....
>
> The following questions are the most frequently asked ones:
>
>      (1) How do you backup a disk a: ?
>
>                        LHA a /r2x1 LZH a:\
>
>
>
>
>
> Well, so far, the best I have been able to do is with..
>
> lha a -r1x1 HTML html/*
>
>
>
> This is the actual syntax as the particular directory is HTML
>
>
>
> This resulted in an lzh file with all the files in that directory, but the 
> directory structure was lost. I did get all the files, though.
>
>
>
> I tried various qualifiers, ie: 012 and got different results, including 
> crashing the /t2 port. I use Hyperterminal to work on my coco..
>
>
>
> At this point, I'm at a loss how to make LHA make an image of the 
> directory I want to save. It isn't going to work if it won't keep the 
> directory structure as it is.
>
>
>
> Suggestions?
>
>
>
>
>
> George
>
>
>
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