Jim Lawrence (AccessD)
accessd at shaw.ca
Sat May 3 00:02:27 CDT 2003
John: That sounds like the easy part after figuring out all the appropriate xcopy parameters and directories. I had been wondering why my Windows98 system would suddenly run slow, it is an old box, so I assumed there was some file bleeding all over the place. Just checked the schedular and low and behold, the McAfee virus scanning routine had placed it's self there to check for an update at a regular interval...EVERY 5 MINUTES!!! :-| Well thanks for bring up the subject or it might have been months until I found it. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John Colby Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 8:02 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] archive bit Just ran a test. The archive bit is set when a word doc is opened and MODIFIED and then saved. just opening it does not set the archive bit. Thus I built a Backup.bat batch file with the following: xcopy d:\dev e:\Backup\dev /E /Y /C /M /I xcopy d:\C2DbClientBilling e:\Backup\C2DbClientBilling /E /Y /C /M /I xcopy d:\Clients e:\Backup\Clients /E /Y /C /M /I xcopy d:\COLBYCONSULTING e:\Backup\COLBYCONSULTING /E /Y /C /M /I xcopy d:\ColbyConsultingWebNew e:\Backup\ColbyConsultingWebNew /E /Y /C /M /I xcopy d:\NVFCNew e:\Backup\NVFCNew /E /Y /C /M /I xcopy d:\Projects e:\Backup\Projects /E /Y /C /M /I Which copies the contents of all of these directories to directories of the same name under the dir E:\Backup, clearing the archive bit in the process. Only files MODIFIED after that copy will be copied the next time the batch file is run. Now I need to figure out the scheduler and place the batch file to run daily ~ 3:00 am. Thus all of my business stuff will be copied to another physical disk so that if the disk dies, I lose at most one day's work. If the place burns down... I file an insurance claim and hit the beach. John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Bryan Carbonnell Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 10:49 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] archive bit On 2 May 2003 at 22:38, John Colby wrote: > Does anyone know if the archive bit is set when a file is opened? > IOW, can I xcopy a dir, clearing the archive bit. Then only the files > opened since the last copy will have the archive bit set the next time > and thus only those need to be xcopied. No. I'm pretty sure the archive bit when the file is saved. Opening and closing doesn't reset it. -- Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at sympatico.ca We're all here because we're not all there. _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com