Why XXCopy wasn't doing incremental clones on my system.

[John Corliss]

I finally figured it out. My backup hard drive is FAT32 and my main
drive is all NTFS. It looks to me like XXCopy will incrementally clone
only from NTFS to NTFS or from FAT32 to FAT32.

Hope this info will help somebody.

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[Bill Bradshaw]

I finally figured it out. My backup hard drive is FAT32 and my main
drive is all NTFS. It looks to me like XXCopy will incrementally clone
only from NTFS to NTFS or from FAT32 to FAT32.

Hope this info will help somebody.

Try the /FF switch.

 

[John Corliss]

Try the /FF switch.

From the command parameters list for XXCopy:

"Note: The FAT (DOS/Win9x) file system has a 2-second granularity in
file time whereas NTFS, Unix and other file systems use finer time
stamps. The /FF switch is useful for incremental backup between volumes
of different file systems."

Thanks! I'll give it a try.

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Regards from John Corliss
I don't reply to trolls and other such idiots. No adware, cdware,
commercial software, crippleware, demoware, nagware, PROmotionware,
shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses or warez
please.

 

[John Fitzsimons]

John Corliss wrote:

Try the /FF switch.

http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy26.htm

/FF Fuzzy Filetime ?