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Number   :  4204
Date     :  2003-04-04
Author   :  james sadler
Subject  :  Re: Use of XXCOPY to clone Documents and Settings under XP
Size(KB) :  2


 I think you will find that XXCOPY is more
than up to the task. If you follow this thread for a
while you will notice that people on this thread have
backup needs that most of us would never dream of.
XXCOPY is a very potent tool that can provide numerous
solutions for all kinds of users. The one thing that I
might suggest to you is that when you use pull out
drive trays you will need more than one backup and
more than one backup strategy. Certain human errors
can take place and if they do you can destroy the
source of your files. If you do that before a backup
is completed you will be left with nothing. With a
stack of pull out drives it is all too easy to reach
for the wrong drive, toss it in the bay and then try
to use xxcopy to back it up onto your good backup.
Burning a good backup to cd-rw now and then isn't a
bad idea.
--- "J. Merrill"  wrote:
> This is precisely the kind of thing that XXCOPY is
> designed to do. The advantages of using XXCOPY
> include (1) faster, as not only would it be a single
> step but only new and modified documents would be
> moved; (2) will copy any hidden files and
> subdirectories, which won't happen when you use
> Windows Explorer; (3) the option to avoid removing
> no-longer-present files (by adding the /Z0 option to
> suppress deletions from the target).
> 
> Good luck...
> 
> At 12:22 AM 4/2/2003 +0000, djmcclo wrote
> >I have a removable hard drive cage in my personal
> PC allowing me to 
> >clone the entire contents of my hard drive to an
> identical hard 
> >drive. To clone the entire hard drive under
> Windows XP, I use Norton 
> >Ghost, which works well. Having done this, I
> occasionally update 
> >the "Documents and Settings" which does not contain
> Windows or 
> >Program Files. I do this in two steps: 1) delete
> Documents and 
> >Settings on the target (D:) drive, and 2) copy the
> Documents and 
> >Settings from the source(C:) drive to the
> target(D:) drive using 
> >Windows Explorer or other file copy utility. Could
> I do this in a 
> >simplier manner using the XXCOPY clone command
> applied to the 
> >directory, say: 
> >
> >XXCOPY C:\Documents and Settings\ D:\Documents and
> Settings\ /CLONE
> >
> >If this is possible, would it be a safer and/or
> easier way of doing 
> >the job?
> >
> >Thanks a lot for the advice. 
> 
> 
> J. Merrill / Analytical Software Corp
> 
> 


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