Bill Ridgeway wrote:
> I have a batch file which copies important files from the C: hard
> disk to the D: hard disk. I recently found a few files in
> C:\Documents and settings of which I would like to keep a copy. Not
> wanting to bother to copy some / leave some I used XCOPY with
> flags /S /Y to copy the whole of the folder and sub folders. (This
> worked OK on the original batch file). However, I have found that
> not all the folders with files are being copied.
> Any ideas why please?
Personally - I have started using the Microsoft SyncToy for such things.
That and Scheduled Tasks makes it much easier to do such backup procedures.
First - make sure you have permission to said directories - all of them.
Second - if the files/folders are in use - you may not be able to copy them
at that time.
Just use "/E" instead of "/S". It does the same thing - including copying
empty directories/sub-directories.
I have had batch scripts do this for me in the past.. I had them only
copying things that had changed since the last time it was ran. the line -
if I recall correctly - was:
xcopy c:\sourcedr\*.* z:\destinationdir\ /D /E /V /C /Q /G /H /R /K /X /Y
You can look at the xcopy help (or command line list) to see what each of
those switches do.
You may want to run the copy verbose - without actually copying and using
the /F and /L switches to see what *would* actually be copied - perhaps pipe
(>) the results to a test file for easy perusal.
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