Mark Lanctot;97137 Wrote: > Since I just got a USB drive enclosure and a 250 GB backup drive, I'm > playing around with this today. > > I wanted to use XXCOPY, and so far I have it doing a nice backup with > the \BU switch. This will ignore any files that haven't changed, add > any that were added in the source drive and modify any that were > modified in the source drive. > > The only thing I *can't* get it to do is to delete files that were > deleted in the source directory. I tried the /RD and /RX switches but > both wanted to remove the whole destination directory! :-O Thank > goodness it asked first. > > Did I miss something with XXCOPY? The other delete switches all deal > with deleting files in the source directory, which is not what you want > to do with a backup... > > So I'll play with robocopy now and see if it does what I want. > > Edit: Yup, robocopy /MIR does exactly what I want except that it tries > to copy the System Volume Information over and errors out. I guess I > can live with that, but it would be nice to have a report saying what > it did and reporting speed like XXCOPY does.
With xxcopy, I always use the /clone switch: xxcopy x:\ n:\ /clone /yy Where x:\ is the source, n:\ the destination. /yy suppresses all prompts so it can run unattended. The /clone switch will make an exact copy, including any changes or deletes. -- Pale Blue Ego ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pale Blue Ego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=110 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22161 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
