Forum Home
Press F1
Thread ID: 38155	2003-09-29 05:51:00	Backup - WinXP Home edition	Scouse (83)	Press F1

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
178862	2003-09-30 02:56:00	Godfather (and et al), Grab yourself a copy of ROBOCOPY - Robust File Copy Utility available as part of the Resource Kit Utilities for Windows 2003 Server and Windows XP from ResourceKit Tools ( : //www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en" target="_blank">www.microsoft.com). I have pasted below the command help from the utility. With the reskit comes documentation for most of the tools and there may(should) be a document ROBOCOPY.DOC otherwise look in the Windows Resource Kit Tools compiled help file (rktools.chm). Using Robocopy in a command script and (perhaps) including command input parameters will give you a very flexible copy/backup strategy if that is what you want. Cheers, Babe. Usage : ROBOCOPY source destination [file [file]...] [options] source : Source Directory (drive : \path or \\server\share\path). destination : Destination Dir (drive : \path or \\server\share\path). file : File(s) to copy (names/wildcards : default is "*.*"). Copy options : /S : copy Subdirectories, but not empty ones. /E : copy subdirectories, including Empty ones. /LEV : n : only copy the top n LEVels of the source directory tree. /Z : copy files in restartable mode. /SEC : copy SECurity info (both source and dest must be NTFS). /SECFIX : FIX SECurity info on existing files and dirs. /TIMFIX : FIX TIMestamps on existing destination files. /MOV : MOVe files (delete from source after copying). /MOVE : MOVE files AND dirs (delete from source after copying). /PURGE : delete dest files/dirs that no longer exist in source. /MIR : MIRror a directory tree (equivalent to /E plus /PURGE). /A+ : [R][A][S][H] : add the given Attributes to copied files. /A- : [R][A][S][H] : remove the given Attributes from copied files. /CREATE : CREATE directory tree structure + zero-length files only. /FAT : create destination files using 8.3 FAT file names only. File Selection : /A : copy only files with the Archive attribute set /M : like /A, but remove Archive attribute from source files. /IA : [R][A][S][H] : Include only files with some of the given Attributes set. /XA : [R][A][S][H] : eXclude files with any of the given Attributes set. /XF file [file]... : eXclude Files matching given names/paths/wildcards. /XD dirs [dirs]... : eXclude Directories matching given names/paths. /XC | /XN | /XO : eXclude Changed | Newer | Older files. /XX | /XL : eXclude eXtra | Lonely files and dirs. /IS : Include Same files. /MAX : n : MAXimum file size - exclude files bigger than n bytes. /MIN : n : MINimum file size - exclude files smaller than n bytes. /MAXAGE : n : MAXimum file AGE - exclude files older than n days/date. /MINAGE : n : MINimum file AGE - exclude files newer than n days/date. (If n < 1900 then n = n days, else n = YYYYMMDD date). Retry Options : /R : n : number of Retries on failed copies : default is 1 million. /W : n : Wait time between retries : default is 30 seconds. /REG : Save /R : n and /W : n in the Registry as default settings. /TBD : wait for sharenames To Be Defined (retry error 67). Logging Options : /L : List only - don't copy, timestamp or delete any files. /X : report all eXtra files, not just those selected. /V : produce Verbose output, showing skipped files. /NP : No Progress - don't display % copied. /ETA : show Estimated Time of Arrival of copied files. /LOG : file : output status to LOG file (overwrite existing log). /LOG+ : file : output status to LOG file (append to existing log).	Babe Ruth (416)
178863	2003-10-01 07:44:00	Hi again. Is there a simple way of using XP's backup direct to CD rather than going through the two step process described here: The WinXP Backup Utility does not support backing up directly to CD recorders but you can accomplish the same goal in a two step process. Just be sure you have enough free disk space to hold your files so that the files will fit on a single CD because the Backup Utility will not prompt you for multiple CDs. You can accomplish the same goal by reorganizing your backup sets into two or more groups, with each one under 650 MB by backing up to a file first, and then copying that file to a CD-R or CD-RW disk. I use ZipBackup which doesn't need this process but my correspondent wishes to rely on XP Backup. Thanks	Scouse (83)
1 2