WinZIP

[yrieithydd]

I am attempting to back up my PhD onto Pelican. One of the constraints of Pelican is not having lots of little files so I want to Zip up my files before I transfer them. Unfortunately WinZip (on the PWF) keeps crashing when I try to do this. After it has been transferring the data it says:

Could not replace original Zip file! New Zip left as U:\Backups\WZ128E.tmp.
Ok Help

When I click ok it asks whether I want to see the log file. This tells me the last file successfully ends:

Adding MyTex/GwedyYnol/GwedyYnolDiagramho.eps
Adding MyTex/GwedyYnol/
copying Zip file
Warning: replace: could not rename U:\Backups\WZ138E.tmp
Could not replace original Zip file! New Zip left as U:\Backups\WZ138E.tmp

Why? After this had happened last time I tried backing up, I noticed that my quote was at 93% and I wondered if this was related, but I deleted some stuff (mainly it has to be said the .tmp files which had been created by those unsuccessful attempts and before the last attempt I was at 48% of quota (so around 125MB free). Now I'm at 56% because of the .tmp file.

What should I do?

Comments

[yrieithydd.livejournal.com]

It was telling linux to transfer the file from E to pelican that I was confused by.

[caliston.livejournal.com]

Ah, right. You won't be able to do that with remote PWF Linux as Matthew suggests since it knows nothing about your local drives. You could upload all the files with WinSCP to /tmp/rcu20 on the remote PWF Linux machine if you wanted though and then tar them from there.

You /could/ boot your PWF machine into PWF Linux and do it from there (restart Windows, machine reboots, a menu comes up asking to choose Linux or Windows). Boot Linux, then the FAQ tells you how to mount your flash drive:
http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/pwf-linux/faq/
Then your files will appear in /media/whatever as it says.

I think both of these fit into the making-more-trouble-for-yourself category though :-)