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SaferCopy 1.2 - A reliable replacement for AmigaDOS Copy 47.7
BACKGROUND
Copy 47.7 shipped with AmigaOS 3.2.3 silently ignores the VERIFY, DATES and
BUF/BUFFER keywords documented in the AmigaDOS 3.2.3 manual. Hence this
version.
FEATURES:
Lets you copy only the missing, uncomplete or older files with the "update"
option.
Partial write detection: checks Write() return value on every call. Silently
truncated files are caught, logged, and the destination is replaced.
Locale : fully localised via locale.library. Machine translated catalogs are
included for 18 languages. Reverts to English if locale.library is absent or
no catalog is found.
Path handling: destination directories are created recursively (equivalent of
mkdir -p).
Error buffering, errors gets printed both immediately AND are summarised at
the end. No need to watch the terminal for ages.
TESTED (MD5, etc) on Amiga 4000, 3000T, WinUAE, over a tremendous amount of
files.
It works for me, but I can't garantee it won't burn down your house to the
ground so please make a copy of it first... Uhh wait.. :D
It comes with no garantee whatsoever.
USAGE:
BUF/BUFFER : actually uses the specified buffer size (default 512KB).
DATES : actually calls SetFileDate() when specified alone, without requiring
CLONE.
VERIFY : actually re-reads the destination after every write and compares
byte-for-byte with the source. Corrupted files are replaced
immediately.
UPDATE : skips files where destination exists with identical size and
datestamp. Re-copies if destination is smaller (previous interrupted
copy) or older than source. Reports "[dest incomplete: X/Y bytes]"
for visibility.
NDATE : with UPDATE, compare size only (ignore datestamp). Useful when a
previous backup was done without DATES/CLONE and destination files
have the wrong date.
VERBOSE : shows skipped (up-to-date) files. By default only active copies and
errors are displayed.
MAXERR/K/N : abort after N errors. Useful for unattended large copies over
unreliable media. Default 0 = no limit.
FORCE : strips write-protection from destination before copying.
TEMPLATE
FROM/M,TO/A,ALL/S,QUIET/S,BUF=BUFFER/K/N,CLONE/S,DATES/S, NOPRO/S,VERIFY/S,
NOREQ/S,UPDATE/S,FORCE/S,MAXERR/K/N,NDATE/S,VERBOSE/S
Type "SaferCopy ?" for an interactive argument prompt.
EXAMPLES
Full backup with verification, preserve dates, 1MB buffer
SaferCopy FROM Work: TO DH1:Backup/ ALL CLONE VERIFY BUF=1048576 NOREQ
Incremental update, abort after 50 errors
SaferCopy FROM Work: TO DH1:Backup/ ALL UPDATE VERIFY BUF=1048576 MAXERR=50
USB to HD, big buffer
SaferCopy FROM USB0:data/ TO DH1:data/ ALL CLONE VERIFY BUF=2097152 NOREQ
Catch up after a backup done without DATES (ignore datestamp differences)
SaferCopy FROM sys: TO Multimedia:SYSBACKUP/ ALL UPDATE NDATE CLONE VERIFY
NOREQ
LANGUAGES
The catalogs are LLM translated. Please report in case of impediments...
Catalogs are included for: english, francais, deutsch, espanol, nederlands,
dansk, norsk, polski, czech, slovensko, portugues, catala, euskara, turkce,
srpski, russian, greek, roman.
Install: copy catalogs/$LANGUAGE/SaferCopy.catalog to
LOCALE:Catalogs/$LANGUAGE/SaferCopy.catalog
COMPILATION
GCC:
m68k-amigaos-gcc -O2 -m68000 -noixemul -Wall -o SaferCopy SaferCopy.c
SASC:
sc SaferCopy.c LINK MATH=SOFT NOSTKCHK OPT IDIR=Include: IDIR=NDK3.2:Include
Catalogs:
python3 catalogs/build_catalog.py (requires Python 3, no catcomp needed)
SOURCES
Available on GitHub, https://github.com/Nowomeister/safercopy/
TODO:
Test on OS 2.04, 3.0, 3.1.
HISTORY
1.2 - Added locale catalog support (18 languages), $VER string, minimum OS
version check (V37 / AmigaOS 2.04+). Updated the readme. Performed more
tests including with files bearing illegal names (ExFAT). Checked for
consistency with Claude, Gemini. Translations by Claude.
1.1 - Added NDATE, VERBOSE, recursive mkdir, fixed sys: path handling, fixed
Shell window not closing after exit.
1.0 - Initial release.
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