Re: Automating functions /Windows 2000

Many thanks for your reply. You are right I am copying a shared drive (not
a system drive) ... have tested the xcopy function with appropriate switches
at home and will try it at the office (where the shared drive is) to-morrow.

I really appreciate your help, thanks again.

Abay

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Hello,

I do a daily backup of a shared drive by dragging the shared folder to
one on a removable hard drive.

Is there a way to do backup (with a bat file?) to automatically reply to
questions about certain files asking me if want to override a previous
version etc. ... I keep a week's worth of backups on the hard drive and
overwrite the oldest file daily.

I was very familiar with bat files some years back, I should say many
years back in the dos era and have forgotten most I what I knew, but
think I should be able to use a bat file to do this.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Abay




Start a Command Prompt and type "xcopy /?". It has all the required
switches you need, including one to overwrite previous versions, one
to copy only new or updated files and one to continue if an error
occurs.

"ntbackup.exe" is fine to back up your system drive. If you're dealing
with shared files then xcopy.exe is probably the better choice because
it makes file recovery very, very easy.



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