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Number   :  4730
Date     :  2003-06-03
Author   :  Denis Green
Subject  :  Re. : incremental Backup & Re: Copying to CD-R
Size(KB) :  2



Dear Kan, David and others 


Thanks for the exhaustive replies. It's great to see
enthusiasm and expertise together. 

Just to confirm...

1. I am using XXcopy ver. updated to the site in Feb 2003.
OS -> Win 2000

2. I've understood that I should use ONE OF the following
command(s)

xxcopy \src\ \dst\ /backup
xxcopy \src\ \dst\ /clone

clone having some features over backup (as discussed in
other posts)

3. ***I suppose I have to be contended with /backup
version of the command, as I am planning to copy into CD-R s. ?
****

3. Now some further questions
----------------------------------
- My "source" consists of bmp, jpg etc files and so would
extend to some 7 -> 8 CDs (approx 5+ GB). There may be
changes to directories / sub directories between successive
backups. Will XXcopy handle this [during the first back up
and during successive backups] or should I manually handle
this (i.e.) creating and selecting subdirectories of < 700
MB size

- Roxio direct CD - How should this be used in combination
with XXcopy ? any tips ?

- will the restore machine also need roxio ? has anyone
tested a restore using this combination of Roxio with
XXcopy ?

and ... has this been answered ?
> 
> Is there a way to use XXCOPY to backup
> directly to CD-R?
> 


Thanks in advance

DG


On 2 Jun 2003 at 9:17, David Mayerovitch wrote:

> Bernie, I'm not familiar with the Nero
> software, but I have been using the
> Adaptec DirectCD program (from Roxio, I
> think) for some time and have had no
> problem using XXCOPY to back up my files
> to a CD-R just as easily as to a CD-RW.
> 
> David
> 
> >Message: 4
> > Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 15:12:47
> > -0400 From: Bernard Robinson
> > 
> >Subject: Two Questions
> >
> >Kan,
> >
> >In Message No. 2 of XXCOPY Digest 675,
> >Denis Green asked whether XXCOPY could
> >be used to make incremental backups to
> >a Read Only CD (CD-R). In your answer
> >in Message 3 of the same Digest, you
> >made a good reply about the differsnce
> >between the /CLONE and /BACKUP
> >switches, but I don not believe you
> >addressed the question about using
> >XXCOPY to backup to CD-R media. I use
> >Nero 5 and I have not found any way to
> >use XXCOPY to backup directly to CD-R.
> >In the Nero documentation, all
> >references to writing to CD-R that I
> >can find call for using the Nero
> >program to make compilations to write
> >to CD-R.
> >
> >Is there a way to use XXCOPY to backup
> >directly to CD-R?
> >
> > 


On 1 Jun 2003 at 15:12, Bernard Robinson wrote:

> Kan,
> 
[................]
> 
> On the other hand, I use XXCOPY to
> backup selected folders to formatted
> CD-RW frequently and it works quite
> well. I use several batch files that I
> have written to automate the backups for
> several different sets of folders.
> 



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