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Number   :  9194
Date     :  2004-11-11
Author   :  russellgadd
Subject  :  Re: Exclude file not working
Size(KB) :  2



--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "John Zeman"  wrote:

> 
> A few suggestions. One, I would rewrite the batch file to be this:
>


Thanks John for such a comprehensive reply.

The problem was that I didn't use quotes. As usual a simple error is
missed! It all works fine now. I find using quotes in batch files a
bit confusing because SET doesn't seem to want them but xxcopy does!

I've also got another backup routine for backing up to CDR using
WinZip to compress the files and I use basically the same exclude
list. In this case the syntax of the exclude files is again different
so unfortunately I have to duplicate this list in 2 slightly different
ways - something which programmers dislike as inelegant and prone to
error (I used to be one a few years ago - albeit amateur)!

However your suggestions about how to specify the files in the exclude
list allow me to make the 2 versions almost identical. All the
suggestions are much appreciated and most are now included in my
updated batch file. Thanks. (For anyone else copying this there's a
small typo in the xxcopy command line - need OPTS not OPS). If
anyone's interested I could post an updated (and more complete)
version here.

Also I don't have a licensed copy of xxcopy and it doesn't like me
using /oX2 (or /oE2 or /oS2) as it says this is primarily for users
with a corporate site licence. This forces me to press a key, which is
a bind, but at least it works to debug things. However I don't mind
missing these options out as the log file seems to contain everything
I want. I would however like to suppress screen output of all the
files copied as this is just a blur of useless information, but I
haven't found a way to do this with the free version.

Also to Virg, thanks for the response. The exclusion list doesn't
include xxcopy - it's just the way the word wrapping in Yahoo has
confused things. The reason I use "exclude xxcopy.txt" is that I also
maintain a file called "exclude WinZip.txt" for the reasons mentioned
above.

Russell



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