[dba-Tech] Drive Copying

Yes, good point Erwin. And that's a good thing in my case. I'm
constantly out of space on my main drive, so I delete older files
there when I need some space and they are still on the external drive.
My external drive is my archive. If I want to delete something
permenantly from it I have to do that manually.

But eventually you run out of space on the Archive - I'm getting close
now - and then you have to 1) delete some things or 2) get a bigger
one and start over - the way I'm leaning    ;-)


On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:48:09 +0100, Erwin Craps - IT Helps
<Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be> wrote:
> One small remark when using xcopy.
> Delete files on the source drive will not be deleted on the destination
> drive.
> At my knowledge there is no solution for that, except for delete
> everything first on the destination drive.
> Best to works with two copies because if you delete everything first,
> you don't have a backup during that time.
> 
> Erwin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 5:55 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Drive Copying
> 
> I go low tech for backups. Here's my backup software...
> 
> cd \
> xcopy c:\*.* R: /s /d /c /y
> 
> That is in a batch file called BackuptUSB.BAT that I have a shortcut to
> on the desktop. I use it both at home and at work.
> 
> It copies any changed files to the external drive. Only issue I have had
> with it is that my external drive letter has gotten changed a few times
> over the years and I have had to redo the batch file.
> 

-- 
Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com