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Number   :  100
Date     :  2001-05-20
Author   :  tornberg@b...
Subject  :  Me, xxcopy and this group
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Hi

Yours is the first group I've ever even considered joining and this 
is my first attempt at a submission. This should tell you just how 
important XXCOPY is to me. I could not automate the complex backup 
and synchronisation required between home and the school in which I 
teach. Many, many thanks to Kan Yabumoto and Pixelab for creating 
XXCOPY and allowing me to use it.

I suppose I am a lurker (very descriptive word) but I do object to 
being made to feel guilty about it. Considering the level of 
expertise in this group I am a little concerned about being shot down.

What is a typical XXCOPY user? Are you all IT professionals? Can you 
all type in XXCOPY commands, using esoteric switches, without 
reference to the documentation? I can't. All of my hourly and daily 
backups and synchs are done using /YY (bomb proof) batch files. 
Weekly, monthly and one-off commands are stored in an annotated text 
file and are pasted into the command line when required.

One query I had was whether I can use two exclusion specifiers at 
once, rather than using an exclusion list file. For example: /Xd:\dir1
\ /Xd:\dir2\ This seems to work but is it bomb proof? Is this level 
of discussion too trivial for this group?

I hope this group survives and have recommended it to the only other 
person I know who uses XXCOPY. Could the problem be due, not to the 
lack of publicity about the group, but the lack of awareness of the 
existence of XXCOPY itself? I found it by chance among shareware 
backup utilities.

David Tornberg



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