XCopy

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BooBoo said:
I heard that XCopy was a good program. Any feedback would be appreciated.
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You must mean XXCopy. XCopy is a module that comes with Windows. I use
XXCopy all the time to back up my hard drive to my spare hard drive.
Excellent program and well documented.
 
I heard that XCopy was a good program. Any feedback would be appreciated.
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Others have mentioned XXCOPY, but the standard XCOPY that comes with
all(?) MSDOS/Windows systems is also a good program -- I use it
routinely in small batch files for daily backups etc. to CDRs
(formatted with DirectCD) and, in another case, to a network drive.

The various versions have slightly different features, but the basics
stay pretty much the same.

Open a DOS window (Command Prompt or MS-DOS Prompt, depending on
version of Windows) and type:
XCOPY /?
and you will get a list of the available command line options you can
use with your version.

If the list scrolls off the screen (like mine does in Windows ME) then
you can use redirection to a file which you can then open and read
with any word processor or text editor. (Or even with the old DOS
TYPE command -- but that will also scroll off the screen unless you
pipe the output through MORE -- nothing is simple!) Examples:

XCOPY /? > XC
TYPE XC | MORE

You could also redirect the output to your printer, but it won't eject
the page until it's full, or it gets a form feed character (ASCII 12):

XCOPY /? > PRN

Or, assuming you created the file XC as above, you could say:

TYPE XC > PRN








Cheers, Phred.
 
["John Corliss"; Fri, 06 Feb 2004 12:49:15 GMT]
I use XXCopy all the time to back up my hard drive to my spare hard
drive. Excellent program and well documented.
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If I may, two questions: (1) Is this drive directly connected to your
laptop, or is it through USB or something? (2) How long does this process
take? Thanks.
 
J44xm said:
["John Corliss"; Fri, 06 Feb 2004 12:49:15 GMT]

I use XXCopy all the time to back up my hard drive to my spare hard
drive. Excellent program and well documented.
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If I may, two questions: (1) Is this drive directly connected to your
laptop, or is it through USB or something? (2) How long does this process
take? Thanks.
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1. Actually, my drive "D" is physically installed in my desktop. My
computer has two hard drives.

2. The initial backup takes a while (depending on your total used HD
space), but from then on it goes quite fast because it only updates
new and altered files, and removes files that no longer exist.
 
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