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Number   :  4787
Date     :  2003-06-10
Author   :  agentxxl52
Subject  :  Re: XXCOPY16 and Directory Cloning
Size(KB) :  2


Hi all,

Just a follow-up on the scenario I brought up in March. After some 
shake-ups around the work place, a month of vacation and an extended 
illness, I finally got a chance to play around with XXCopy and the 
networked DOS 5 machine. I am able to map drives on my WinNT4 box to 
the DOS 5 box, and I can use XXCOPY to transfer files. Alas my 
original dilemma of maintaining the source directory timestamps still 
seems to be a problem. A standard /CLONE will create new directories 
on the destination. If I pre-copy the directory structure from the 
source using

XXCOPY G: E:\PFSleep /T/TCC

the directory timestamps are preserved. Then, no matter what 
combination of switches I use to copy the files from G: will result 
in the directory timestamp being updated to the current date/time. 
Maybe I just haven't found the right combination of switches - god 
knows there are enough of them! :)

Any further assistance would be appreciated! Thanks...

Dale

--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, Kan Yabumoto  wrote:
> 
> Dale:
> 
> What you may consider is a network solution.
> 
> If you install a proper set of device drivers so that your
> DOS 5 machine can be connected to a LAN, you may be able to
> run a Win2K/XP machine at the other end. Running XXCOPY
> on the Win2K/XP end and access the MO drive remotely,
> you should be able to save the timestamp of the directory
> on your MO drive into the disk drive.
> 
> In this case, you need to use XXCOPY (not XXCOPY16).
> 
> Kan Yabumoto
> ===========================================================
> At 2003-03-05 06:45, you wrote:
> >--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, Kan Yabumoto  wrote:
> > > If you are using DOS 5 (which XXCOPY16 should work --- but,
> > > I seldom go backup to DOS 5 since DOS 6 was a stable and
> > > much better version), and your MO-control software runs on
> > > DOS 5 environment and not in Win9X environment, again, the
> > > discussion of the three kinds of timestamps is moot.
> >
> >Correct... I am attempting to backup the directories with 
timestamps
> >intact from the DOS 5 machine. As this is the last working MO drive
> >in our shop, I am reluctant to move it or attempt upgrading of the 
OS
> >on the 486 it is in.



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