Re: Backing Up Media Center Recordings
- From: <pERASEshea@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:10:23 GMT
Is it possible that MCE sets sets the archive flag on some files while
you aren't looking? That's all I can think of...
Doesn't that sound like a BUG to you? I hope my answer wasn't too cryptic
about working on individual files. The HELP command is good at the CMD
prompt and each internal or external command or program has it's own help by
typing the command or the program name (dir vs. xcopy) and follow it with
"/?" I haven't used UNIX since I first used the Internet in 1995. Obviously
one cannot compare it to MS-DOS as I'm sure you well know. Peace
<pERASEshea@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You can create a list of files by using the ">" command; i.e.; dir
*.dvr-ms /b /on > "Recorded TV.txt" At that point one can use the "For"
command to work on a file at a time. I never went that far in Batch
files, I just remember it from BASIC. At a CMD prompt type "for /?" and
it will give you the syntax.
"Gene E. Bloch" <spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 9/20/2006, pERASEshea@xxxxxxxxx posted this:
I have been using computers since 1983. For many years my backup
strategy was to use a simple BATCH file to backup new or modified files
depending on their ARCHIVE attribute to another hard disk using the
XCOPY command. In MCE 2005 (or WinXP) this doesn't work consistantly.
It will always backup the files that have the ARCHIVE attribute set.
The Problem is that it also backs up random files that I have not
touched, created or modifed since my last backup. It does this
especially with recorded TV and music files. An example line from my
batch file is:
c:
attrib -A "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Recorded
TV\*.*"
cd "\Documents and Settings"
f:
cd "\Documents and Settings"
xcopy "C:\Documents and Settings" /e /m /y /c
As you can see I have to turn the ARCHIVE setting OFF on my Recorded TV
or it will backup files that I haven't touched since my last backup.
Since these files are huge, I don't want to backup files that SHOULDN'T
need to be backed up. My 'solution' has been to simply copy new TV
recordings manually using Windows Explorer. Can anyone explain why the
ARCHIVE attribute no longer works consistantly in XP?
Please don't tell me to give up the CMD environment. There are things
that can be done there that the GUI can't do.
peace :)
br. patrick
Is it possible that MCE sets sets the archive flag on some files while
you aren't looking? That's all I can think of...
You might need to create a more complicated script, individually and
explicitly xcopying the directories you want and not the others.
I forget - can the new command interpreter get input from a list of files
(in a text file)? I used to use that all the time in Unix, but at this
moment, years away from *nix, I forget the name of the reference file :-(
--
Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
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(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")
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