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Number   :  7859
Date     :  2004-05-10
Author   :  ehathgepiurhe
Subject  :  Incremental Backups
Size(KB) :  1


Hi,

I was wondering if someone could tell me if xxcopy could do the 
following:
Say I have a number of files I wish to backup. I would also like to 
keep an old backup of these files just in case they get corrupted. I 
could simply copy these files to a CD once a month, but my memory 
isn't that good (& it is a waste of CD's), so I was wondering if I 
could do it with xxcopy. The way I see it happening would be:
1. The first time I run xxcopy, it would copy the files to a backup 
directory. Let's call the directory the files are in directory A, 
the backup directory is B.
2. The next time I run xxcopy (say a week later), it would copy the 
files from directory B to directory C, which is the old copy I want 
to keep in case of corruption. It would then copy the files from 
directory A to directory B. So, we would have the backup copy in 
directory B, another copy in C.
3. The third time xxcopy is run, it would copy B to C, then A to B. 
The same with the every subsequent xxcopy run.
Can this be done with xxcopy, or is there another, better, simpler 
way for me to do this?

Thanks,

CM



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