backup with xcopy

[Kostas K.]

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

 

[John]

Microsoft is a piece of shit

 

[Donald G. Davis]

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

 

[Brian Jones]

--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.

 

[Kostas K.]

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?

 

[Eric Gisin]

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

 

[John]

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:\