Portability to non-Windows systems is of course a problem but xcopy is
present on every install of Windows that has ever existed going back to
some very old version of MS-DOS so it is probably one of the most
portable commands in existance on this platform.
Well, you'd think.
Richard Copley wrote:
Well, you'd think.
Just because they made an improved version of the command in Vista
doesn't mean that the old xcopy ceases to work or to be just as portable
as it's always been.
Brian
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d.henman wrote:
From what Gary mentions. indeed rsync is the best way to go.
At least for thinking, on time backups.
With rsync, only the first time is slow.
Did you even *read* the original question? He didn't say anything about
doing incremental backups, he just wanted to move some
Hi,
Brian Dessent wrote:
Using xcopy, is kind of silly and wont get you compatiblity.. especially in
scripts
Portability to non-Windows systems is of course a problem but xcopy is
present on every install of Windows that has ever existed going back to
some very old version of
--- Erich Dollansky ha scritto:
if I remember right, XCOPY is older than any
networking stuff on this
plattform. It should be there since the first hard
disks have been there.
Not so old.
I think only from MSDOS 5.0
Regards
Marco
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On Nov 1, 2007 6:31 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
--- Erich Dollansky ha scritto:
if I remember right, XCOPY is older than any
networking stuff on this
plattform. It should be there since the first hard
disks have been there.
Not so old.
I think only from MSDOS 5.0
Regards
Marco
I'm not exaggerating. I have over one million small files that like to
move between disks. The problem is that even getting a directory
listing takes forever.
Is there a best practice for this?
I don't really need the directory listing, I just need to move all the
files. I have been using rsync,
On 10/31/07, sam reckoner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not exaggerating. I have over one million small files that like to
move between disks. The problem is that even getting a directory
listing takes forever.
Is there a best practice for this?
I don't really need the directory listing, I
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, sam reckoner wrote:
I'm not exaggerating. I have over one million small files that like to
move between disks. The problem is that even getting a directory
listing takes forever.
Is there a best practice for this?
I don't really need the directory listing, I just need
sam reckoner wrote:
I'm not exaggerating. I have over one million small files that like to
move between disks. The problem is that even getting a directory
listing takes forever.
Is there a best practice for this?
I know it's heresy but if you just want to copy files why not use the
native
From: Brian Dessent
sam reckoner wrote:
I'm not exaggerating. I have over one million small files
that like to
move between disks. The problem is that even getting a directory
listing takes forever.
Is there a best practice for this?
I know it's heresy but if you just want
Brian Dessent wrote:
sam reckoner wrote:
I'm not exaggerating. I have over one million small files that like to
move between disks. The problem is that even getting a directory
listing takes forever.
Is there a best practice for this?
I know it's heresy but if you just want to copy files
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
I'm sorry Brian. We put up with allot from you but I think we have to
draw the line at heresy. What is the penalty for heresy around here
anyway? Expulsion? Flogging? Burning at the stake?
They all sound good! But we must make sure that whatever we choose is
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
I have a similar situation to the OP (copying many thousands of small
files over a fairly slow link), and actually timed using XCOPY vs.
Cygwin methods (cp in my case). It didn't make a significant
difference. Ultimately what I think you run into in these sorts of
From what Gary mentions. indeed rsync is the best way to go.
At least for thinking, on time backups.
With rsync, only the first time is slow.
For one shot backups of many files,using tar to group them into one and
then sending is a good idea.
Using xcopy, is kind of silly and wont
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