[Info-vax] BACKUP to nfs-share, some files are modified

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

wolfgangburgerunread at gmail.com skrev den 2015-01-30 14:56:
> Am Freitag, 30. Januar 2015 12:09:26 UTC+1 schrieb Jan-Erik Soderholm:
>> I have put Alpha version of zip/unzip here:
>> http://jescab2.dyndns.org/pub_docs/zip.axp_exe
>> http://jescab2.dyndns.org/pub_docs/unzip.axp_exe
>
> Thank you very much for the binaries and the instructions. I didn´t know
> that you can just run an executable(wow, sounds stupid), without
> linking/installing it first.
>

These EXEs are rather simple and doesn't realy on very much
from the system itself. Other EXEs might have more trouble...

There can be cases where one has trouble copying/FTP the EXE.
Sometimes I have produced a UUENCODE file on the source system
and then copied by cut-n-paste between two terminal emulator
windows to finaly UUDECODE on the terget system. That way the
transfer as such us is pure text. Can be mailed and so on.

> This looks promising. I´m creating ZIPs of the folder structures I value
> the most and then FTP them away.
>
> I´m still going to create a BACKUP/IMAGE of most of the stuff, just in
> case. But the ZIPs are so much easier to handle and especially verify on
> the receiving side.
>

If you ZIP the BACKUP files also, you will have no trouble to FTP
these files without surprices. You have to UNZIP on a VMS system
to be able to use them. And use the ZIP switches to preserve the
VMS file attributes.


Jan-Erik.