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Number   :  3972
Date     :  2003-03-06
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: Directory names and create dates
Size(KB) :  3


--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "agentxxl52"  wrote:
> --- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, Jon Hugdahl  wrote:
> 
>> I would rename all the directories (ON the MO) to include
>> the date stamp within the directory name.
>> i.e. P000120 would be renamed to p021224 if p000120 was
>> created on 2002/12/24.
>> 
>> If there are a large number of directory, some playing
>> around
> 
> That last line I quoted was the understatement of the year
> (so far). :) I have about 10 MO cartridges, 800MB each,
> hoding about 250 directories each. That's a LOT of renaming
> .... I thought of this route as well, but shelved it as a
> last resort. Thanks for the reply though - instead it looks
> like I'm going to give Kan's obvious suggestion of networking
> the machine a go.

Although this is definitely a good way to go, your main difficulty 
with a network approach is trying to find (and get working) a DOS 
based SERVER so that you can share the MO drive. You can get the 
client side software free from Microsoft 
(ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/MSWGCN.EXE) but I'm pretty 
sure it doesn't include the server.

If you have an old copy of Windows for Workgroups (Win 3.11), I'd 
suggest that is your best bet. It's small, will run fine on a 486 and 
provides the server software. I've also used Lantastic for DOS 
previously and it works but can be finicky to set up and probably 
impossible to get the DOS version these days. Note that you'll find 
it easier to use NETBEUI on the DOS machine so you may need to add 
that protocol to the PC which will access the DOS PC across the lan.

If you can't get the network sharing of the MO happening, I think 
Jon's suggestion of renaming the directories by their dates is a good 
one. Rather than renaming, I would simply copy the MO directories 
onto the Jaz drive with a new name made from the original date. This 
would leave your original names intact in case you need to get back 
to that data in the future.

Using a batch file and a utility such as LMOD (http://home.mnet-
online.de/horst.muc/), you can create a 2nd batch file which will get 
the directory names and dates from the MO drive then invoke xxcopy to 
copy each directory to a P0yymmdd directory name on the Jaz drive. 
Here's a rough outline. Check the MOCopy~1.bat file before running it 
to see that it's going to do what you want.

:: MOCopy.bat
:: Creates a batch file to copy all directories on D:\* to
:: E:\P0yymmdd where yymmdd is the date of the source directory
@echo off
echo Insert a MO cartridge in D: and a Jaz disk in E:
pause
echo Creating C:\MOCopy~1.bat
echo @echo off > C:\MOCopy~1.bat
:: Note that the next lines prior to the "echo .." are one long line
:: Make sure that the line doesn't exceed 128 chars.
:: Assumes standard DOS 5 directory date format of mm-dd-yy
dir d:\ /a:d/o:d|find ""|lmod /L*/S- xxcopy D:\[$1]\ E:\P0[$5]
[$3][$4]\ /bu /oaC:\MOCopy.log>>C:\MOCopy~1.bat
echo C:\MOCopy~1.bat created
echo Type C:\MOCopy~1 to carry out the actual copy

Garry



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