[dba-Tech] Drive Copying

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 

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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.


On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:28:42 +0100, Andy Lacey
<andy at minstersystems.co.uk> wrote:
> Afternoon folks
> 
> Ok so I decided to beef up my backup capability (been using Disk2Disk 
> to backup essentials to CD), get a second HD, a USB 2.0 caddy for it 
> and backup my entire disk to that. Was going to get Ghost 9 to do it 
> but then read some horrendous reviews of the product which aside from 
> many and various problems agreed on only one thing - if you need tech 
> support forget it. So I thought I'd better canvas opinion among the 
> best-informed set of people I know - yes folks it's you. So who can 
> recommend the greatest, most reliable, easiest to setup, easiest to 
> use disk imaging software? One requirement I'd have would be to 
> schedule overnight backups and not to have to come out of Windows to
do it.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> --
> Andy Lacey
> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
> 
> PS If we've had this before I apologise but I couldn't find anything 
> in the archives.
> 
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