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Number : 10372 Date : 2005-01-31 Author : des4212001 Subject : Re: cloning drive but excluding Temp* diectories Size(KB) : 1
--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "rgmiller02" wrote: > > --- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "brital01" wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm fairly new to xxcopy and, whilst I find it to be a very > powerful > > tool, I don't seem to be able to solve this particular problem with > > one command. I simply wish to back-up my C:drive to another drive, > > using XXCOPY /clone but excluding the Temporary Internet and Temp > > folders. In other words, I want the destination drive to be exactly > > as the source but without the 2 aforementioned folders. It would be > > nice also, at the same time, to exclude individual *tmp files and > > other junk, with the /EX switch. > > > > Hopefully, someone will point me in the right direction. > > > > Brian > > > Brian, > > In order to exclude either files or folders from being processed by > XXCOPY, you'll need to become familiar with the exclusion switch. The > exclusion switch is covered in Tech Bulletin 05, which you can find > at [http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy05.htm]. > > Be *very* careful using the /clone switch ... it is a *very* powerful > command and has been known to cause data loss to users that haven't > done their homework (read the instructions) before using! Clone is > covered in Tech Bulletins 10 [http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy10.htm] and > 20 [http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy20.htm]. > > Good luck! Also check out /CF (command files). You'll probably discover quite a bit more to exclude than mentioned above. Even using Exclusion files I personally have too many switches, not to mention multiple invocations of xxcopy, to conviently use everything on the command line. You'll find John Zeman's help file an excellant reference: http://www.xxcopy/xxcopy.chm DES
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