Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!infmx!greggy From: greggy@infmx.UUCP (greg yachuk) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: ZOO/ARC Discussion Message-ID: <179@infmx.UUCP> Date: 6 May 88 17:54:11 GMT References: <827@uvm-gen.UUCP> <21371@amdcad.AMD.COM> <25745@clyde.ATT.COM> <35@achel.UUCP> Organization: Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA. Lines: 21 Keywords: Zoo Arc Backup Summary: Arc onto other discs In article <35@achel.UUCP>, derek@achel.UUCP (derek) writes: > OK, so this is a good security measure, but is there any way to persuade > the archiver to do its back up onto another disk? Or is there a way to > automate the archiving facility so that I can fill, or nearly fill a disk > with one or more archives, that I have overlooked? ARC 5.20 has a couple of environment variables (ARCTEMP and TEMP) which tell it where to build the temporary ARC file. By setting this to another disk (e.g SET ARCTEMP=b:) you can build the temporary file whereever you want. Unfortunately, it then tries to RENAME the file, which you cannot do across disks in MSDOS. I realize that even if this worked correctly, it still wouldn't do what you asked for (i.e. placing the resulting ARC somewhere else). I guess the answer (for ARC at least) is NO, unless you muck with the sources. Greg Yachuk Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA (415) 322-4100 {uunet,pyramid}!infmx!greggy !yes, I chose that login myself, wazit tooya? Natasha: How do you stop moose from charging? Boris: No problem, Dahlink, you take away credit card.