Date   : Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:24:04 +0100
From   : joel@... (Joel Rowbottom)
Subject: Recursive Cross-FS Utility

Hiya --

On 23 Apr 2009 00:42:32 +0100, jgh@... (Jonathan Graham
Harston) wrote:

> CHAIN "TreeCopy net::srcdisk.srcpath adfs::dstdisk.dstpath ~CR~P"
> or *TreeCopy net::srcdisk.srcpath adfs::dstdisk.dstpath ~CR~P will
> do it, or run without parameters and follow the prompts.

Ah, command-line too. Excellent. Thankyou.

> d) tweek the copying code to make better use of larger memory systems,
> eg ARM CoPro.

The ARM CoPro being switched on did confuse it, I'd forgotten I'd left it
running so *almost* whinged about it on-list but it turned out to be
PEBCAK.

> A note to Joel, the MDFS can have up to 255 entries in each directory,
> while 8-bit ADFS can only have 47. When mirroring my MDFS I've had to
> do a bit or jiggling of some directories so they'd fit on ADFS. Also,
> you'll loose the MDFS metadata (creation/modification stamps, etc.)

Yeah, noticed that. Was a bit annoyed at myself but it's easily solvable
I'm sure.

> For that reason I end up archiving my MDFS into an uncompressed ZIP
> and storing the ZIP file on the backup drive.

Good idea, thanks.

Thanks for everyone's help - seems to be working fine.

Cheers


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