Hello!

I want to use xcopy to copy a few folders from one drive to to another
folder on another drive for backup purposes. Could somebody tell me how to
do it with a single xcopy statement?

e.g. instead of writing:

xcopy c:\1 d:\
xcopy c:\2 d:\
xcopy c:\3 d:\

write something like that (the following does not work)

xcopy c:\1+c:\2+c:\3 d:\

Thank you

Kostas

Microsoft is a piece of ****


"Kostas K." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bpt9s4$11r$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello!
>
> I want to use xcopy to copy a few folders from one drive to to another
> folder on another drive for backup purposes. Could somebody tell me how to
> do it with a single xcopy statement?
>
> e.g. instead of writing:
>
> xcopy c:\1 d:\
> xcopy c:\2 d:\
> xcopy c:\3 d:\
>
> write something like that (the following does not work)
>
> xcopy c:\1+c:\2+c:\3 d:\
>
> Thank you
>
> Kostas
>
>

"Kostas K." <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>I want to use xcopy to copy a few folders from one drive to to another
>folder on another drive for backup purposes. Could somebody tell me how to
>do it with a single xcopy statement?

>e.g. instead of writing:

>xcopy c:\1 d:\
>xcopy c:\2 d:\
>xcopy c:\3 d:\

>write something like that (the following does not work)

>xcopy c:\1+c:\2+c:\3 d:\

It can't be done with a single XCOPY command, but if you simply
save your block of commands as a text file and name it with a .BAT
extension (e.g., BACKUP.BAT), then run BACKUP as a command, the batch file
will automatically execute your XCOPY commands in sequence.

--Donald Davis
--
--Donald Davis

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Donald G. Davis wrote:
> "Kostas K." <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
> --Donald Davis

Better yet, just download XXcopy. It's free. Bypasses the limitations of
the MS version of Xcopy. XXcopy works great--I use it all the time to
mirror my HDs.

I have tried both xxcopy and microsoft's robocopy.

But my problem remains the same,

either with xxcopy /clone or robocopy /mir, how can I select multiple
directories to do my backup all in one go?


"Brian Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Donald G. Davis wrote:
> > "Kostas K." <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
> > --Donald Davis
>
> Better yet, just download XXcopy. It's free. Bypasses the limitations of
> the MS version of Xcopy. XXcopy works great--I use it all the time to
> mirror my HDs.
>
>

download unxutils.sourceforge.net . use "cp -r source ... dest"

"Kostas K." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have tried both xxcopy and microsoft's robocopy.
>
> But my problem remains the same,
>
> either with xxcopy /clone or robocopy /mir, how can I select multiple
> directories to do my backup all in one go?

Use a FOR statement. You work out the exact syntax (Microsoft shits me).
Something like:

for %f in (c:\1 c:\2 c:\3) do xcopy %f d:\



"Kostas K." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bpu70b$24ue$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have tried both xxcopy and microsoft's robocopy.
>
> But my problem remains the same,
>
> either with xxcopy /clone or robocopy /mir, how can I select multiple
> directories to do my backup all in one go?
>
>
> "Brian Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:w8qdneoKzJgZ81-iRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Donald G. Davis wrote:
> > > "Kostas K." <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
> > > --Donald Davis
> >
> > Better yet, just download XXcopy. It's free. Bypasses the limitations
of
> > the MS version of Xcopy. XXcopy works great--I use it all the time to
> > mirror my HDs.
> >
> >
>
>