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
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