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Number   :  9369
Date     :  2004-11-25
Author   :  des4212001
Subject  :  Re: Destination Exclusions?
Size(KB) :  2



--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "John Zeman"  wrote:
> 
> --- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "des4212001"  wrote:
> > 
> > Exclusions obviously apply to the source. But consider 
syncronizing 
> > across machines. Where the Destination is both Remote and a 
> > different flavor of Windows. There are places where /ZY 
(deleting 
> > destination orphans) can be applied and places where it's not 
> > practical because of system structural differences. Destination 
> > Exclusions (at least where the Destination is Remote) simply 
don't 
> > work. And breaking the job down far enough to isolate a few 
files 
> > and folders on the destination also gets out of hand quickly. I 
> > suppose the only solution is 2 passes, swapping the source & 
> > destination? But then this is right at the slowest point, the 
> > network. (All to catch that 1 redundant file!)
> > 
> > Any ideas? DES
> 
> 
> I'm not sure I follow what you're asking us DES. Can you clarify 
it a bit more?
> 
> John

And I thought I'd done such a good job explaining it the first time!

Example: Trying to sycronize My Documents here on El-Diablo - "F:\My 
Documents\", (WinXP) with "\\Cx532597-a\My Documents\" (W-98). Each 
My Documents folder contains objects unique to it's installation, 
call them Orphans. Exclusions take care of not transfering Source 
Orphans to the Destination. And backing up only different size (& 
new) files ignores Destination Orphans. But in many subfolders it's 
desirable to delete objects from the destination that no longer 
reside on the source (/ZY). Just not inclusive, as a few destination 
orphans need to be ignored. Hence the concept - Destination 
Exclusions.

Breaking the batch down into subfolder components to include the /ZY 
or not as required would work, just gets unhandy. Read that large 
with many invocations of xxcopy. All I "would like" to do is specify 
a few /X:"\\Cx532597-a\My Documents\xxx" items in the main My 
Documents command file. But alas, that don't work! Considering all 
the what I would call "really farout" special capabilities of 
xxcopy, I'm confused finding such an obvious lacking right up front? 
I'm just hoping I've missed something? (Well, I know for sure I've 
missed Something! And here's hoping it includes destination 
exclusions?)

DES



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