Interesting,
Not come across that code before,
Good stuff Cheers for the test bits :)
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ron thigpen;243172 Wrote:
fred7 wrote:
Just a helpful reminder to be very careful using the /mir option
because
it will delete files not in the source. Doing this backwards can
have
devastating results.
I'll reiterate this warning and make a suggestion.
My approach to mirroring
fred7 wrote:
Just a helpful reminder to be very careful using the /mir option because
it will delete files not in the source. Doing this backwards can have
devastating results.
I'll reiterate this warning and make a suggestion.
My approach to mirroring music directories uses a batch file
Hiya,
So that one drive if it becomes faulty could be taken out and the new
put in and all should run as if nothing has happened ?
I have been using robocopy probably in it's simplest form to back up
music files to an external drive, and not sure on all the copy/mirror
options that would allow
Cheers for that, both of you!
Just double checking, so with Robocopy I can back up any *.exe files,
like slimserver, mp3tag etc, and just reload if anything goes wrong
(after of course XP is back on), Unless I get Ghost, yes?
What I'm thinking of backing up:
All music, pics, docs, etc
emails
Just a helpful reminder to be very careful using the /mir option because
it will delete files not in the source. Doing this backwards can have
devastating results.
JJZolx;242966 Wrote:
If it's just a data disk, then yes. It wouldn't work for a bootable
system disk, since it just copies files
Deaf Cat;242961 Wrote:
So that one drive if it becomes faulty could be taken out and the new
put in and all should run as if nothing has happened ?
I have been using robocopy probably in it's simplest form to back up
music files to an external drive, and not sure on all the copy/mirror
Deaf Cat;242974 Wrote:
Just double checking, so with Robocopy I can back up any *.exe files,
like slimserver, mp3tag etc, and just reload if anything goes wrong
(after of course XP is back on), Unless I get Ghost, yes?
What I'm thinking of backing up:
All music, pics, docs, etc
emails
fred7;242968 Wrote:
Just a helpful reminder to be very careful using the /mir option because
it will delete files not in the source. Doing this backwards can have
devastating results.
True. Don't reverse the source and destination if you like your data.
It's always:
robocopy source
Deaf Cat wrote:
Cheers for that, both of you!
Just double checking, so with Robocopy I can back up any *.exe files,
like slimserver, mp3tag etc, and just reload if anything goes wrong
(after of course XP is back on), Unless I get Ghost, yes?
You can't copy any executable files that are
Robin Bowes;242999 Wrote:
You can't copy any executable files that are running.
I just tried it on a few running programs and it works for me. Never
tried it before, so I couldn't say if it's always the case.
Code:
robocopy C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer
Lovely, you guys have cleared up my unknowns and made things simple,
Ta very much :)
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Paul_B;243010 Wrote:
I would think it depends on what version of Robocopy and OS you are
using. If the OS (2003 / Vista) and Robocopy are Volume Shadow aware it
probably can copy files even if they are in use.
That was on XP Pro SP2, with Robocopy version XP010.
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Jim
I would think it depends on what version of Robocopy and OS you are
using. If the OS (2003 / Vista) and Robocopy are Volume Shadow aware it
probably can copy files even if they are in use.
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