On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Rohan Carly wrote: > I have been examining how flexbackup attempts to attach a title to zip > archives. (I'm talking about zip, not gzip). ... > This is a bad solution for two reasons: > > 1. It requires write access to the volume being backed up. > 2. Some filesystems don't allow filenames to contain colons. (Windows > filesystems shared over SMB is one example). > > Could you please modify flexbackup to apply titles by simply running "zip" > again with the "-z" option after it's done the compression. > > BTW, thanks for your fine program.
A fine way for you to provide thanks, and get just what you want, would be for you to submit a patch. :-) -- Charlie ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ flexbackup-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
