Xcopy c:\*.* d:\ /s /e /v
On Nov 8, 2013 5:45 PM, "Karen Lewellen" <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> I did just join the xxcopy yahoo group, so I can learn if that has any
> advantages to using xcopy.
> To be more specific, this time around, I am doing a full backup of both my
> hard drives. The desire is everything this time around, full directory
> structure in tact, hidden files and system files since the purpose of using
> the removables is to give me a way to restore the contents of my computer
> if anything happens. later on I will simply add the files that have been
> changed between backup sessions to these removable drives.
> warm or cold does not make much sense within the context of xcopy and its
> switches.
> Any reason why I cannot just do
> xcopy source drive target drive / all the desired switches?
> thanks,
> Karen
>
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2013, Louis Santillan wrote:
>
> > Ghost. Paragon/pts dos' drive backup tools. There used to be a drive
> image
> > tool in FreeDOS but I don't recall if it was ever finished. Pkzip with
> > disk spanning. 7zip with disk spanning. Tgz/tbz balls with split &
> merge.
> > FD backup. Ms backup. Other backup utils.
> >
> > It depends if you want a warm backup, cold backup, or archive.
> >
> > -L
> >
> > On Friday, November 8, 2013, Rugxulo wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Karen Lewellen <
> klewel...@shellworld.net<javascript:;>>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I have aquired and set up two removable drives with which I intend
> >> backing
> >>> up the two hard drives in my pure dos machine.
> >>> I was planning to use xcopy for this, but before I start am wondering
> if
> >>> there is anything else?
> >>> Again although I am not using freedos, my computer only has dos, so
> any
> >>> idea should strictly run in this.
> >>
> >> The only major caveat would be to make sure that you aren't trying to
> >> preserve LFNs since almost all XCOPY clones don't support that. Not
> >> sure about Win9x nor whether XCOPY32 or whatever would work better.
> >> (If you did need LFNs preserved, it would "maybe" be better to use GNU
> >> / DJGPP "cp -r" or some third-party version like xWCopy.)
> >>
> >> The other minor problem would be speed, but I'm not sure what would
> >> work best. (Presumably loading UIDE, cache + Ultra DMA, would help the
> >> most.) I haven't ever really needed to try, so I'm not much help here,
> >> but there are other variants like ZCOPY or XXCOPY or whatever. At
> >> least one of them (probably ZCOPY) used XMS. Not sure when/if MS-DOS
> >> supported anything beyond just conventional memory (or maybe HD
> >> swapping), only after MS-DOS 6.00?? Dunno. You could probably also use
> >> an archiver (e.g. "zip -9Xr d:\backup.zip c:\"[untested]) if you
> >> really wanted.
> >>
> >> Anyways, here's some download links if you're curious:
> >>
> >> 1).
> >>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/xcopy/xwcpy081.zip
> >> (BSD; may be limited to 65,000 files at a time)
> >> 2). http://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/fil41b.zip (GPL,
> >> needs 386+ and DPMI, see ../current/v2misc/csdpmi7b.zip if needed)
> >> 3). ftp://ftp.sac.sk/sac/utildisk/xclone13.zip (freeware)
> >>
> >> 4). ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utilfile/zcopy35.zip (probably not
> >> LFN-aware ... oops, non-commercial only "without explicit permission",
> >> meh)
> >>
> >> EDIT: Not sure the DOS version of XXCOPY is supported anymore, doesn't
> >> look like it, and I can't find any obvious link to the older version.
> >> Though it's apparently only for personal, non-commercial use anyways
> >> (without extra payment).
> >>
> >>
> >>
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