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Number   :  9403
Date     :  2004-12-02
Author   :  des4212001
Subject  :  Re: Destination Exclusions Re-revisited
Size(KB) :  2



--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "Garry Deane"  wrote:
> 
> --- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "des4212001"  wrote:
>  
> > But then for the life of me I can't reason why an 
> > Include list would be nice as John suggested a way back,
> > as everything is included by default?
> 
> Most of us only want to copy a sub-set of all the files
> that might exist in a directory tree or volume. For
> example, typically you might want the files in
> "C:\Documents and Settings\*\" but not the files in
> printhood\, cookies\, recent\ etc.
> 
> At the moment, the ways available are to use:
> 
> 1. multiple xxcopy commands with each directory you want
> copied given as the source
> 
> 2. /X/X etc. to exclude the directories you
> don't want
> 
> 3. /IN to select just *.doc, *.xls etc files (but
> you can't specify a directory path).
> 
> Although this is workable, there are lots of cases where
> it becomes cumbersome. This is particularly so with method
> 1 when you want to keep a log of the operation. It becomes
> even more cumbersome when the source files are scattered
> across different branches of the directory tree.
> 
> It would be much simpler to be able to specify multiple
> source paths in an inclusion file (or expand the scope
> of the /IN switch) e.g.
> 
> xxcopy c:\ d:\mydata\ /IN@:
> 
> :: Source files
> "C:\Documents and Settings\Garry\My Documents\"
> "C:\Documents and Settings\Fred\My Documents\"
> "C:\Program Files\Eudora\*\*.mbx\"
> "C:\Program Files\Eudora\*\*.toc\"
> 
> This is just a simple example but I hope you get the idea.
> With both inclusion and exclusion files, you could select
> whether it is better to specify a source with a few
> exclusions or if there are lots of exclusions, specify
> a few inclusion source specs instead.
> 
> At the moment with some of my backup schemes, I use
> quite complex batch files to dynamically build an exclusion
> file so that I can copy data directories which match a few
> simple but dissimilar patterns i.e. I create an exclusion
> file which matches everything except the directories that
> I want to copy. Although this works, it is far from obvious
> which makes it hard to maintain.
> 
> Garry

After reading this and while dorking around with the file removal bug
(s) it has come to me like a bolt of lightning that most of what I'm 
doing in multiple xxcopy invocations via batch & command files could 
be more neatly accomplished with an Inclusion File.

Signed: Converted DES



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