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Number   :  10395
Date     :  2005-02-01
Author   :  des4212001
Subject  :  Re: A tip for debugging exclusions
Size(KB) :  1



--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "John Zeman"  wrote:
> 
> Here's a little tip you can use when you're trying figure out 
which exclusion works and how. If you use a command line similar to 
this:
> 
> xxcopy SRC DST /ox1/EC/W/L /x*\temp*\ /x*.tmp
> 
> where SRC and DST represent a valid source and destination, 
and /x*\temp*\ /x*.tmp are the exclusions you want to test, when you 
run the command xxcopy will display how it interprets your listed 
exclusions. For example if I run this command:
> 
> xxcopy C:\ I:\ /ox1/EC/W/L /x*\temp*\ /x*.tmp
> 
> xxcopy will not copy anything but it will display:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Exclusion Items List
> H 1: C:\*\*.tmp
> K 2: C:\*\temp*\
> Press Ctrl-C to abort, any other key to begin copying file(s).
> 
> 
> In the above the * is a wildcard that means anything at all. So 
all files that end in .tmp would be excluded as well as any 
directory that begins with temp
> 
> John

I'll have to remember this! A comment though... In thinking to 
myself, "Geeze I have a lot of redundant path info in my 
exclusions." But I did have the foresight to start searching for 
occurances of some of the wildcarded reductions before jumping in 
and changing things. Just one example, the ntuser.dat files, trying 
*\ntuser.*. Low & behold there were instances I didn't know about. 
(There are even some files that aren't even always present.) Now 
whether or not these files that would be inadvertantly excluded by 
generalizing the exclusions even need to be copied is unknown, at 
least to me. The point being, use caution and explore your 
generalizations. Some items like the Temps in your example aren't in 
question. But I made a note to myself not to get carried away just 
for the purposes of saving a few bytes in the exclusion items.

DES



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