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Scriveva James D. Ernest (JErnest@HENDRICKSON.COM) il 28-Mar-98:

JE> I find my Zip drive pretty handy.  --Longevity I know nothing
JE> about; I have a vague suspicion that optical disks might be
JE> more durable than magnetic media, but I don't really know.

I recently bought a SuperDisk (Imation), and I'm really happy
with it. It is similar to a Zip drive, but diskettes are 120MB. I
keep a disk for a daily backup, and I wrote a batch file that
saves only the files updated or added since the date passed to
the batch file as parameter. I hope you will not be offended if I
quote here this batch file: it is primitive, I know, but really
safe and, if used daily, makes your life easier and your nightly
sleep more peaceful...

xcopy c:\nb4\*.* e:\nb4 /D:%1 /S /E /V
xcopy c:\texfiles\*.* e:\texfiles /D:%1 /S /E /V

and some other similar lines. This instruction makes a backup of
all the files in the given directory and its subdirectories --
even empty dirs -- and checks if the copy is done correctly. The
destination directory must exist in the output drive. Obviously,
the new files are added to the old ones, or they substitute the
old ones with the same name.

        Best regards,
        guido

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