[dba-Tech] Empty folders

Yep, xcopy is part of the OS, been there for a long time. It's a tweaked up 
version of the copy command.

I use a simple batch file that uses an xcopy command to back up my hard 
drives to an external hard drive.

--------------------Start below (BackupToUSB.BAT)

cd \
xcopy c:\*.* I: /s /d /c /y

--------------------End above

The options I use are
/s = Do Subdirectorys (or FOLDERS for you youngsters)
/d = Copy only files newer than on the destination drive
/c = Continue even if an error occurs (I get a couple errors on files that 
can't be copied sind they are in use)
/y = suppress prompting for "do you want to overwrite?" message (so it keeps 
going)

Put a shortcut on my desktop to this batch file and I copy everything that 
has changed since the last go around to the external whenever I want.

Gary Kjos
garykjos at hotmail.com





>From: Jon Tydda <Jon.Tydda at alcontrol.co.uk>
>Reply-To: Discussion of Hardware and Software 
>issues<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software 
>issues'"<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Empty folders
>Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:55:05 +0100
>
>Hey that's cool... er, whilst I vaguely remember using DOS with windows 3.0
>at home, it was a while ago, and I've mostly been brought up on Win 95+ ;-)
>
>The only version of DOS that I remember using was 6.22 (possibly the last
>one I think) and that was just writing and running batch files, meddling
>with Autoexec.bat and Config.sys, and making directories (See, I even know
>that they were called before folders!).
>
>Thanks Stuart
>
>
>Jon
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stuart McLachlan [mailto:stuart at lexacorp.com.pg]
>Sent: 22 September 2004 09:39
>To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Empty folders
>
>
>On 22 Sep 2004 at 9:24, Jon Tydda wrote:
>
> > Hmm, that sounds cool... is xcopy part of windows?
> >
>
>It's been part of MSDOS since about v 3.0 :-)
>
>Just open a command prompt and thye XCCOPY /?
>
>
>C:\>xcopy /?
>Copies files and directory trees.
>
>XCOPY source [destination] [/A | /M] [/D[:date]] [/P] [/S [/E]] [/V] [/W]
>                            [/C] [/I] [/Q] [/F] [/L] [/H] [/R] [/T] [/U]
>                            [/K] [/N] [/O] [/X] [/Y] [/-Y] [/Z]
>                            [/EXCLUDE:file1[+file2][+file3]...]
>
>   source       Specifies the file(s) to copy.
>   destination  Specifies the location and/or name of new files.
>   /A           Copies only files with the archive attribute set,
>                doesn't change the attribute.
>   /M           Copies only files with the archive attribute set,
>                turns off the archive attribute.
>   /D:m-d-y     Copies files changed on or after the specified date.
>                If no date is given, copies only those files whose
>                source time is newer than the destination time.
>   /EXCLUDE:file1[+file2][+file3]...
>                Specifies a list of files containing strings.  When any of
>the
>                strings match any part of the absolute path of the file to
>be
>                copied, that file will be excluded from being copied.  For
>                example, specifying a string like \obj\ or .obj will 
>exclude
>                all files underneath the directory obj or all files with 
>the
>                .obj extension respectively.
>   /P           Prompts you before creating each destination file.
>   /S           Copies directories and subdirectories except empty ones.
>   /E           Copies directories and subdirectories, including empty 
>ones.
>                Same as /S /E. May be used to modify /T.
>   /V           Verifies each new file.
>   /W           Prompts you to press a key before copying.
>   /C           Continues copying even if errors occur.
>   /I           If destination does not exist and copying more than one
>file,
>                assumes that destination must be a directory.
>   /Q           Does not display file names while copying.
>   /F           Displays full source and destination file names while
>copying.
>   /L           Displays files that would be copied.
>   /H           Copies hidden and system files also.
>   /R           Overwrites read-only files.
>   /T           Creates directory structure, but does not copy files. Does
>not
>                include empty directories or subdirectories. /T /E includes
>                empty directories and subdirectories.
>   /U           Copies only files that already exist in destination.
>   /K           Copies attributes. Normal Xcopy will reset read-only
>attributes.
>   /N           Copies using the generated short names.
>   /O           Copies file ownership and ACL information.
>   /X           Copies file audit settings (implies /O).
>   /Y           Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an
>                existing destination file.
>   /-Y          Causes prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an
>                existing destination file.
>   /Z           Copies networked files in restartable mode.
>
>The switch /Y may be preset in the COPYCMD environment variable.
>This may be overridden with /-Y on the command line.
>
>--
>Stuart