Re: How to backup to a fileserver.

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From: George Mansoor
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1992 20:51

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In article <1992Jan17.133442.7708@husc3.harvard.edu>, utterbac@husc9.harvard.edu (Margot Utterback) writes:
>I have a user that wants to backup his local hard disk files to the 
>fileserver.  He tried using the dos backup command but backup choked on
>the f: specification.  Nbackup wont take local directories as the source 
>drive.  Is there a way?  He wants to do this both for safety, abd also so
>that he can replicate a directory hierarchy on several machines.  The files
>are too large to easily do it with floppies.
>
>utterbac@husc.harvard.edu

Is xcopy a possibly option, or a utility like pkzip.

George Mansoor
Cal State Northridge
gmansoor@vax.csun.edu

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