burton@parcvax.Xerox.COM (Philip M. Burton) (10/30/87)
I do my backup by subdirectory onto floppies from my hard disk. Each subdirectory has its own floppy or set of floppies. I would like a method to have a floppy in either drive A: or B: automatically cd to the same subdirectory as the subdirectory on disk C:, or match up the subdirectory on C: to the subdirectory on drive A: or B:. Any suggestions? Ideally, this method would work in a batch file, and return an error code if the cd operation failed. -- Philip Burton burton.osbunorth@parcvax.COM Xerox Corp. .... !hplabs!parcvax!burton 408 737 4635 ... the usual disclaimers apply ...
guardian@laidbak.UUCP (Harry Skelton) (11/05/87)
In article <594@parcvax.Xerox.COM> burton@parcvax.Xerox.COM (Philip M. Burton) writes: >I do my backup by subdirectory onto floppies from my hard disk. Each >subdirectory has its own floppy or set of floppies. > >I would like a method to have a floppy in either drive A: or B: automatically >cd to the same subdirectory as the subdirectory on disk C:, or match up the >subdirectory on C: to the subdirectory on drive A: or B:. > >Any suggestions? I would get a copy of 3.3 Dos and use the program XCOPY. You can do an XCOPY \dir A: /s (this tells to copy all sub. dirs.) or XCOPY A: \dir /s. Read the manual for more ways to do this. Other than that You'd have to hard code a batch file to follow directory trees. You could get the MKS toolkit and use CPIO to copy (this way your directory can be larger than the disks). .---------. Harry Skelton : .-. : --- other mail drops --- guardian@laidbak.UUCP : `-'o : ihnp4!laidbak!ugh!bear ihnp4!laidbak!guardian : O : ihnp4!laidbak!laipc!bear `---------' "An MS-DOS Man working in a Unix(tm) world....Gee!"
joel@peora.UUCP (11/05/87)
In article <594@parcvax.Xerox.COM>, burton@parcvax.Xerox.COM (Philip M. Burton) writes: > I do my backup by subdirectory onto floppies from my hard disk. Each > subdirectory has its own floppy or set of floppies. > > I would like a method to have a floppy in either drive A: or B: > automatically cd to the same subdirectory as the subdirectory on disk > C:, or match up the subdirectory on C: to the subdirectory on drive A: > or B:. Under DOS 3.2 or above XCOPY makes a good utility to back up this way since you can set it to automatically copy subdirectories and to only copy files that have the archive bit set, then reset it. This way you only back up files that have actually been changed or created since your last backup. You copy XCOPY to the name MCOPY to avoid cetain prompts by the program. For instance I have a BACK.BAT that looks something like this (I'm doing this from memory) pushdir cd \ mcopy c:%1 b: /s /m /v popdir So to back up subdirectory AUTO, I would put the AUTO floopy in the B drive and enter BACK AUTO. Any files I changed would be copied to the AUTO directory on the floppy. I might have put a %1 after b:, I don't remember, but it does put the files in a subdirectory on the floppy (a 720kb in this case). This is handy since I sometimes back up several small subdirectories to one floppy. This doesn't work if the subdirectory is too large for one floppy, then I use two utilities from PC Magazine, BAC and ATTR. BAC will put all the selected files on one or several floppies, while ATTR lets me reset the archive bits so I can identify what I need to back up. -- Joel Upchurch @ CONCURRENT Computer Corporation (A Perkin-Elmer Company) Southern Development Center 2486 Sand Lake Road/ Orlando, Florida 32809/ (305)850-1040 {decvax!ucf-cs, ihnp4!pesnta, vax135!petsd, akgua!codas}!peora!joel
Cynthia_M_Lloyd@cup.portal.com (11/10/87)
I would highly recommend a copy of Patriquin's PCOPY65. Among its other attributes is the ability to copy from one disk (ette) to another and create matching subdirectories as it goes. A SUPER program ... easier and more comprehensive than DOS 3.3 XCOPY.
kevinc@auvax.UUCP (Kevin Barry Crocker) (11/13/87)
In article <1368@cup.portal.com>, Cynthia_M_Lloyd@cup.portal.com writes: > I would highly recommend a copy of Patriquin's PCOPY65. Among its other Cynthia, Thanks for the tip on PCOPY65. Now, where can we get it from? ihnp4!alberta!auvax!kevinc (Kevin Crocker Athabasca University) Do our employers have opinions or is that what we get paid for!
hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin) (11/16/87)
>/ hpindda:comp.sys.ibm.pc / Cynthia_M_Lloyd@cup.portal.com > >I would highly recommend a copy of Patriquin's PCOPY65. Among its other >attributes is the ability to copy from one disk (ette) to another and create >matching subdirectories as it goes. A SUPER program ... easier and more XTREE also has this capability. --- just a satisfied user, John Hardin