Re: [flexbackup-help] adding titles to zip archives

[Charlie B. <cha...@e-...>]

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. :-)

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Charlie