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| Thread ID: 28476 | 2002-12-20 20:54:00 | Backing up to floppy | Greg S (201) | Press F1 |
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| 107859 | 2002-12-20 20:54:00 | I'm looking for a proggy that will split large files into segments that can be stored on a few floppies. My question however, is would this be a safe way to break up a backup file in Microsoft's .qic format, or would it potentially corrupt the file? Thx. |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 107860 | 2002-12-20 20:58:00 | winzip will allow you to span a file over several disks. It's nearly always on coverdisks. | crozier (2004) | ||
| 107861 | 2002-12-20 21:24:00 | i prefer winrar myself ;-) | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 107862 | 2002-12-20 21:29:00 | WinAce (www.winace.com) has greater compression that WinZip (at the cost of a bit more proccessing power) and has auto-recovery for some corrupted Ace files. Winzip however is the industry standard, but WinAce can read Zips too. Check their website for some statistics! Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 107863 | 2002-12-21 03:51:00 | We all have our own favourites, I like Splitter, a very small program (36K), very useful for moving files to another comp. as it recombines the files parts with a self executing program, so you dont need to have Winzip etc on the other computer. As a bonus Splitter also gets transfered. Freeware from here: www.sarasoft.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 107864 | 2002-12-21 07:25:00 | Power Archiver is another, but they are all very similar. The technique is safe, but just remember that floppies are unreliable and using a disk set increases the chance of failure (because an error on one will probably make whole lot unrecoverable). Leave some free space on the disks (~100k) so you can run a repair programme the disks if you need to. If the programme won't let you, find another. And check the files are actually readable after they have been written (use the verify writes option if it has it). |
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