[Coco] [color computer] archiving or backing up a hard drive

[George's Coco Address]

From: "Robert Gault"

> George's Coco Address wrote:
>><snip>
>> What I wanted to do was use LHA to archive each directory in the root, 
>> but it won't do subdirectories. This means I would have to go to the 
>> lowest subdirectory and archive it's contents, then move up and archive 
>> that archive and the files in that directory and then move up one 
>> directory and .... well you get the idea, I think.
>>
> ><snip>
>
> If you are using the version by Haruyasu Yoshizaki (lha + xlh), then you 
> are mistaken. LHA will easily do subdirectories if you ask it to.
>
> Type lha [ENTER]  and you will get the complete syntax for lha. Notice the 
> Option "r: Recursively collect files". That's what you need along with the 
> command "a: Add files" to get subdirectories.
>
> Note that options must be preceded with a - sign.


 I must be an idiot.

LHA, when not given input says...

LHA v2.11:  File Archive              Copyright (c) Haruyasu Yoshizaki, 
1988-91
LHA OS9 v2.11c  by E. M. Krenciglowa 1993-94        UNLZH  by N. Rheaume 
1992
Usage: LHA <command> [-option[-+012|WDIR]] <archive[.lzh]> [DIR/] 
[filespecs]


What is -+012?
What is [filespecs]

So as soon as I sent my original message on this subject, I went to RTSI to 
see if I could find something to do this task. I found LHA and the !DOCS!. 
Great, I thought...

In looking through it, I found what I thought I needed but it looks sort of 
like a MSDOS version

>From the manual....

The following questions are the most frequently asked ones:

      (1) How do you backup a disk a: ?

                        LHA a /r2x1 LZH a:\





Well, so far, the best I have been able to do is with..

lha a -r1x1 HTML html/*



 This is the actual syntax as the particular directory is HTML



 This resulted in an lzh file with all the files in that directory, but the 
directory structure was lost. I did get all the files, though.



 I tried various qualifiers, ie: 012 and got different results, including 
crashing the /t2 port. I use Hyperterminal to work on my coco..



 At this point, I'm at a loss how to make LHA make an image of the directory 
I want to save. It isn't going to work if it won't keep the directory 
structure as it is.



 Suggestions?





George