... Add a trailing \ to your paths e.g. "C:\program files\". The trailing \ is shorthand for \*\* and specifies everything in and below the directory path....
... I'm not sure why xxcopy would corrupt files. Probably because they were in use by other running programs and so were not in a state where they could be...
... If you want to exclude the entire C:\Windows\ directory, add /XC:\Windows\. You might also want to add a few other exclusions like: /Xpagefile.sys...
I connected an external drive to a Vista system and gave the following command: XXCopy C:\*.* H:\ /r /i /c /h /k /y /s /d The copy process went well except I...
... I don't use Vista but if "C:\Documents and Settings" is a symbolic link that points to "C:\Users\" then it is seen by Xxcopy and other parts of the OS just...
... I have for years continually added line after line to the same exclusion list which now contains hundreds of exclusions. The same exclusion list, until...
... By typing VER at the DOS prompt in XP it returns a single line like "Microsoft XP ....", could you not use a .bat file to interogate this line and run the...
... From what I read, OSs are going to be all symbolic links eventually; you won't know (or care, theoretically) where your files are! We'd better get used to...
... Seems to me that a new XXCopy switch that would eliminate the copying of the contents of symbolic links would be a better solution that "getting used to...
... That would be one solution; but, it adds another complication that I have to deal with and thus adds another chance for a serious mistake and possible...
... Wouldn't it be simpler to put anything you want to backup into a separate partition? I try not to have anything of importance in my C:\ partition. Bob...
Alexethridge wrote: <snip> ... I could not agree with you more. We recognize that in the Vista environment (as well as other environments where junction points...
I'm executing the following command within a for loop xxcopy /l /zs /s /np /x"*\Proprietary *\*" rrules.dat to generate a list of files to be processed and...
... You have a couple of errors here, mostly to do with the FOR command's processing of xxcopy's output. 1. I assume you are using a recent version of xxcopy...
... I'm not an expert in the advanced batch file scripting, especially with the FOR /F ... IN ( ...) stuff. If you de-couple your question into a pure XXCOPY...
Thank you both Garry and Kan. Using /ll /q2 turned out to be the solution. I had missed seeing the file size and excluded note that xxcopy was outputting, off...
I keep a database of mp3 files of popular music in a folder called "Music". Periodically I download new music from the internet into a separate folder called...
... /BZS will only copy files from c:\Updates\ if they are smaller than files with the same names in c:\Music\. It sounds like you want the opposite, to copy...
... Thanks for your comments, John. I had two problems with my test data. The first was that a new file in c:\Updates\ was not getting copied over into...
... If there any subfolders involved with c:\Updates\ and c:\Music\ you will need to add /s or /e in order to process them. Also if the files are read only,...
I'm trying to back up my d: drive. Some directories I want an exact copy of, that is, everything I delete on the main drive, I want deleted on the backup...
... OK, John, I've figured it out. No subdirectories or any of the suggestions you made. The problem was that I was using test data, so the files were 1K in...
I have a 10 server license and am copying files from 4 servers to a 5th server (with xxcopy64 installed) using looping batch files. The batch files are...
While doing an xxcopy, the DOS command-line window is open showing what's happening file-by-file. At some point, where there's a file in the to-folder to be...
... No, I've never seen this. It definitely sounds like a bug but whether it is xxcopy or the server I don't know. Certainly there shouldn't be repeats of...
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