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Answer» I readily admit to being a newbie at using DOS. I was planning on trying to use DOS to backup my files to an external hard drive. I was able to COPY files thanks to Dusty's input for WEW in an earlier thread. However, it looks like I'll have to do a lot of typing since I have quite a few folders under My Documents.
Buy? In another thread, I think you said you are using WinXP. If so, (or most any other version of semi-recent Windows) you might like to check out some freeware. If you don't like it - - at least the price was right! http://www.2brightsparks.com/downloads.html#freeware http://www.2brightsparks.com/tutorials/tutorials-hub.html http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,23148-order,1-page,1/description.html I hope one of them helps. Quote from: djc3 on April 08, 2007, 04:57:22 PM I readily admit to being a newbie at using DOS. I was planning on trying to use DOS to backup my files to an external hard drive. I was able to copy files thanks to Dusty's input for WEW in an earlier thread. However, it looks like I'll have to do a lot of typing since I have quite a few folders under My Documents. Upon re-reading your post, and a little bit more thought: Are you looking to just copy the files over to the external drive? More or less a one-time operation? Or, are you looking to do regular backups? If you WANT to be selective in what folders/files you wish to backup by simply Copying or XCopying them why not create a .bat file containing the instructions. That way you only have to do a lot of typing once. Don't forget to test your backup files once they are copied, nothing worse than going to a lot of trouble to back them up only to find that when they are needed they ain't what you wanted. Good luck I'm set up a batch file to do xcopies of selected folders & files and found that MS-DOS isn't accepting the longer folder & file names or names with blanks inserted. Is there anyway around this, or do I just have to forget about doing small backups with a DOS batch file? Thanks. Quote from: RoughRider on April 09, 2007, 06:48:38 PM I'm set up a batch file to do xcopies of selected folders & files and found that MS-DOS isn't accepting the longer folder & file names or names with blanks inserted. Is there anyway around this, or do I just have to forget about doing small backups with a DOS batch file?put double quotes for your file/folder names.Example:- XCOPY "c:\docs and sets\my photo.jpg d:\backup files\my backup photo.jpg" Good hunting.Thank you, ghostdog74 and Dusty. The quotes did the job. They did have to be put around each individual long name however, rather than the whole string. Thanks for your help. R_R - APOLOGIES, I perpetrated an Oopsie on you, thanks for correcting my oversight. |
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