[DUG] Disk Image backups

[John Bird]

Another excellent tool for folder and file backups is XXCOPY a superset of
the XCOPY command from a manufacturer of Tape backup software. This is great
for fast incremental backups of folder trees from one place to another.
100's of options - eg I have a batch file with a whole lot of lines backing
up many folders, for example

ECHO UTILS
XXCOPY D:\UTILS K:\UTILS /S/DA/FF10/Q1/ZS/YY

/S	recursive subdirectories
/DA	only files with later modification date than destination and also
new files
/FF10  Fuzzy file time -files within 10 seconds are considered same (needed
for copying eg NTFS to FAT32 where
      file times will change on arrival because of file system time
granularity or rounding)
/Q1	don't list files that are skipped
/ZS	no statistics at end
/YY	answer yes to almost all questions

Command line version is freeware, also a pro version see www.xxcopy.com

John


-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
Behalf Of Stephen Barker
Sent: Thursday, 19 January 2006 3:50 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List; 'Alister Christie'
Subject: RE: [DUG] Disk Image backups


 

> Another good backup idea are to zip up critical files being
> worked on and email them to your gmail account.  Offsite 
> without getting out of your chair...
> 

Better still - they now have Gmail Drive - a couple of gigs free storage
which shows up as a drive in My Computer - drag and drop files etc.

BTW for imaging I use DriveImage which used to be from PowerQuest but I
notice Norton own it now. It doesn't require booting from DOS to do backups,
supports DVD, and has FreeDos booting capability from floppy or CD - very
useful for partition copying when upgrading to a larger hdd.

Steve
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