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Number   :  8021
Date     :  2004-06-08
Author   :  nv1z@a...
Subject  :  Re: Delta files
Size(KB) :  2


In a message dated 6/7/2004 9:17:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
garrydeane@y... writes:

> --- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "frachausson"  wrote:
> >hello Garry
> >
> >This last solution is working much better and seems to be
> >the solution, even though I need a little bit more time to
> >test it fully.
> >
> >I now have a "Delta" skeleton which lists all the "missing"
> >files on the destination PC ("missing" = actually missing +
> >existing with a different date); since this is a skeleton,
> >all files are 0 sized.
> >
> >If this would not be too much to ask, I would like to go
> >with this question:
> >- giving this "Delta" skeleton
> >- carrying it back to the reference PC
> >how could XXCOPY work to gather all the actual files (not
> >0 sized) from this ref PC according to the skeleton?
> >
> >This would help me to copy all these files (around 1.500
> >in my very case) from the ref PC to the destination PC;
> >otherwise, I would have to do all the copying by hand.
> >
> >Thank you again for your kind help.
> 
> Maybe some forward planning would have been appropriate
> before you had proceeded this far 
> Fortunately, xxcopy has just what you need.
> 
> xxcopy /u/?
> 
> xxcopy \src\ \dif\ /u/s/h/r/y
> 
> Hopefully the USB device can fit all the files in one pass.
> If it can't, what you'll need to do is:
> 
> :: Step 1 - copy all src files that exist in the skeleton
> :: This may terminate part way through if the USB device fills
> xxcopy \src\ \dif\ /u/s/h/r/y
> :: Step 2 - at remote PC, copy all files >0 bytes to the
> :: destination and remove after copy
> xxcopy \dif\ \dst\ /rcy/sz:1-/s/h/r/pd0/po0
> :: Step 3 - if Step 1 was unable to fit all files on the
> :: USB device and you still have some zero length files left
> :: in the skeleton directory, repeat Steps 1 and 2 until done.
> 
> Garry

Delta Files, hmmmm? Sounds like a movie that might star Chuck Norris and 
David Duchovny.

Richard Kahn, NV1Z

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