I hadn't used PeaZip
as a backup utility previously, but after reading about the program,
I thought it would be well-suited to copy a directory containing about
37 GB of files on a Microsoft
Windows
Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 server to an external
USB drive so
that I could transfer the directory, which was shared over the network
from the server, to the new 2022 server I was setting up to replace
the outdated server. I downloaded the
portable
version, PeaZip
Portable to a USB
flash drive and when I started the program, I specified the
external USB drive as the location for the
.tar archive I
wished to create, but when the PeaZip program showed it was progressing with
the backup, I did not see the archive file on that external drive. After some
time wondering whether PeaZip was actually creating the tar file, I
wondered whether it might be creating a temporary file elsewhere, so
from a command prompt, I checked the location Windows was using to store
temporary files for the account I was using with echo %temp%
and, when I checked that location, found a .tar.tmp file that PeaZip was
using for the ongoing archive process. Unfortunately, that temporary
file was in a directory on drive C that I knew did not have enough free
space left to accomodate the archive file as PeaZip progressed further,
so I had to delete a lot of files from that drive and mover others there
so that I would not have to restart the archive process.
C:\>echo %temp%
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1.MAY\LOCALS~1\Temp
C:\>cd %temp%
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1.MAY\LOCALS~1\Temp>dir *.tar.tmp
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is E88C-7773
Directory of C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1.MAY\LOCALS~1\Temp
08/12/2022 11:14 PM 5,569,092,608 Andy_2022-08-12.tar.tmp
1 File(s) 5,569,092,608 bytes
0 Dir(s) 33,934,786,560 bytes free
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1.MAY\LOCALS~1\Temp>When PeaZip concluded the archive process, it moved the temporary file to the location I specified with the .tmp extension now removed, but now I know I need to ensure that the location specified with the Windows %temp% environment variable for a site has enough free space to accomodate the archive file before using PeaZip to create a .zip, .tar, etc. file archive.
