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Number   :  5289
Date     :  2003-08-12
Author   :  dayvah49
Subject  :  Re: Copy failed using /RCY/R to overwrite Read-Only file in destination
Size(KB) :  2


J. Merrill wrote:

> It seems that your batch file is designed to let you build a group 
of target directories (on a hard disk or network drive) each of which 
will have at most one CD's worth of data.
> 
> I much prefer "burning a CD" to using "packet-writing software" and 
it seems you may feel the same way.
> 
> Could you post (or send to me privately) your batch file? That 
would be much appreciated.

I agree about the advantage of burning CD-Rs vs "packet-writing 
software" which seems to always have problems or waists ones time 
even with the fastest CD-RW drive.

To give me the least number of problems burning to CD-Rs I use batch 
files that include WinZip's command-line add-on tool called wzzip and 
XXCOPY to date name zip files and append them with consecutive 
numbers. If you don't have or want wzzip you can with minimal 
modifications take out that part and just have date/time folders like 
this as your last line:

xxcopy d:\temp\ f:\burn_cd\/$yy-mm-dd-hh.nn.ss$\/rcy/ed/pd0/y

If you use NT, 2000, or XP then it should be easy to create numbered 
directories. Check the archives for posts by "garrydeane" on cmd.exe 
commands that will do this. There is also a small command-line tool 
I use called WMFREN.EXE that will add today's date to a file name if 
you use Win98/SE that would cut down the number of lines in a 
batch to get the job done. As you can see I'm truly a novice with 
batch files!

@echo off
:loop
:: copies a quota of files to zero byte file ref
xxcopy c:\ d:\ref_c\/ks/h/r/bx/sz:-650M/qbl:650M/s/y 
if errorlevel 100 goto end
:: copies files that are NOT 0 bytes to temp
xxcopy d:\ref_c\ d:\temp\/h/r/s/y/sz:1-
:: clears RO bit files that are NOT 0 bytes
xxcopy d:\ref_c\/arr/sz:1-/s
:: updates ref with 0 byte files for next loop cycle
xxcopy d:\temp\	d:\ref_c\/h/r/s/tr0/y
:: wzzip moves files and folders into zip file
:: note! wzzip syntax has src to right & dst to left!
wzzip -m -u -ex -r -P -whs -Jhrs d:\temp\C.zip d:\temp\
:: moves zip to today's date directory
xxcopy d:\temp\C.zip d:\temp1\/$yyyy-mm-dd$\/rcy/ed/pd0/y
:: adds date to file name with directory flattening switch
xxcopy d:\temp1\*\* d:\temp2\/rcy/ed1/pd0/sl/y
:: appends file name with consecutive numbers
xxcopy d:\temp2\ f:\burn_cd\/rcy/ed/pd0/sgf/y
goto loop
:end

The zero byte directory keeps track of what you copy and serves as a 
simple record of what's been copied now and in the past. Obviously 
zero byte files in source will NOT be copied to CDs!

I hope this helped.
dayvah49



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