RE: XCOPY to DVD

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From: Bill Martin (KILLSPAMwylie_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 09/09/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:54:31 -0400

> The cmd doesnt look right,to transfer hd to hd in xp,youd
> type: XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r D: being the slave drive.For cmds
> in XCOPY try opening cmd prompt,in cmd type:XCOPY /?

Your parameter string is not what I'd personally choose for data backups. I
don't want it skipping over errors (/c) and I don't care about hidden files
(/h) or special attributes (/k/r) and such since I'm just trying to
incrementally backup up some user data files. Also your string does not
address the incremental backup issue which /d) is supposed to handle in the
first place.

Thanks for the thoughts.

Bill -- (Remove KILLSPAM from my address to use it)

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