[dba-Tech] Drive Copying

Ouch!  No, you are entirely correct, this is not a backup but a file
by file copy to another drive. It copies anything NOT on the other
drive and anything there but newer on the older drive. It's not for
everyone. The biggest defficiency from my standpoint is that it
doesn't have GENERATIONS. So if something changes multiple times but
keeps the same name I only have the one version.  Perhaps I should be
using GHOST or something to create images of the entire disk....hmmmm?


On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:00:11 +0100, Erwin Craps - IT Helps
<Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be> wrote:
> I wanted to point this out because I once had an issue with a
> accountancy software that  re-imported files again creating double
> records when restoring from a backup like this.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 9:55 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [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
> >

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Gary Kjos
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