Backing up

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Colin Bearfield

I want to backup jpg files to the same folder structure on another
physical drive with dates later than... I am running XP Professional.

I used to do this all the time with PKware in the days of DOS. How do
I do it with XP.

Many thanks

Colin
 
Colin Bearfield said:
I want to backup jpg files to the same folder structure on another
physical drive with dates later than... I am running XP Professional.

I used to do this all the time with PKware in the days of DOS. How do
I do it with XP.
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You could write a batch file. Check XXCopy (http://www.xxcopy.com), it
is a good tool for such things.
 
You could write a batch file. Check XXCopy (http://www.xxcopy.com), it
is a good tool for such things.
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Thanks for that. I presume that it is something like the old xcopy.
I'm a bit rusty on batch files, but I remember the switches. I should
use /D:mm/dd/yy. I also remember that there should be /S to copy the
subdirectory if it doesn't already exist.

I think the general source would be G:\digifotos\ *.jpg /D:09/23/04 /S
j:\digifotos

Is that likely to work? Maybe I should contact the web site first.
Fancy having to write batch files with all this software around.

Best wishes

Colin
 
Arrgggghhhh!

My command line is xcopy g:\digfotos\*.jpg h:\ /S /D:09/23/04

It finds the right files but it doesn't preserve the folder structure.
E.G. There is this already on drive H:. H:\DigFotos\FujiPic\House but
instead of dropping the recent files into that folder it creates
another one H:\DigFotos\House and drops them in there.

What am I doing wrong?

Best wishes

Colin
 
Colin Bearfield said:
Thanks for that. I presume that it is something like the old xcopy.
I'm a bit rusty on batch files, but I remember the switches. I should
use /D:mm/dd/yy. I also remember that there should be /S to copy the
subdirectory if it doesn't already exist.

I think the general source would be G:\digifotos\ *.jpg /D:09/23/04 /S
j:\digifotos

Is that likely to work? Maybe I should contact the web site first.
Fancy having to write batch files with all this software around.
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Get the XXCOPY TECHNICAL BULLETIN #26 from the website for detailled
instructions on all parameters. As far as I can see, the suggested
command-line should work for you, but because DIGIFOTOS is a long
folder name, you have to enlclose it in quotes:
XXCOPY "G:\digifotos\*.jpg" /D:09/23/04 /S "j:\digifotos"
 
Get the XXCOPY TECHNICAL BULLETIN #26 from the website for detailled
instructions on all parameters. As far as I can see, the suggested
command-line should work for you, but because DIGIFOTOS is a long
folder name, you have to enlclose it in quotes:
XXCOPY "G:\digifotos\*.jpg" /D:09/23/04 /S "j:\digifotos"
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Thanks again.

Actually it seems to be working and I have only changed the "S" switch
to "E". I seem to remember that if you use the "E" switch with xcopy
you should also use "S". Is that right? Please not that I am using
xcopy not xxcopy.

Best wishes

Colin
 
Colin Bearfield said:
Actually it seems to be working and I have only changed the "S" switch
to "E". I seem to remember that if you use the "E" switch with xcopy
you should also use "S". Is that right? Please not that I am using
xcopy not xxcopy.
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I have not heard of this, yet. But if it works, leave it alone.
 
Thanks for prompting me to take that trip down memory lane. Do you
remember "prompt$P$G" and "call" and "dir" and "ANSI= something or
other" and the intricacies of "config.sys". You could build a career
on that!

Best wishes

Colin
 
I use Nico Commander. (remember norton commander for DOS?) It will copy
files, folders, subfolders, anything. You can use the option to only
copy newer files, or sort the files by date and highlight the portion
you want to copy. Super file handling program. I have been using it
daily for several years.

Colin said:
I want to backup jpg files to the same folder structure on another
physical drive with dates later than... I am running XP Professional.

I used to do this all the time with PKware in the days of DOS. How do
I do it with XP.

Many thanks

Colin
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