Re: doing backup

From: Shenan Stanley (newshelper_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/30/05


Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 04:17:04 -0600

Eitan wrote:
> Hello,
> I want to do backup of some folders,
> some of the files in the folders are sent to folder with the same name
> (different files), within a period of about 4 weeks.
> (i.e file a.txt is sent to same folder twice in 1th of January, and
> 1th of February - with different contexts, so it is not the same
> file).
> How can I do the backup.
> Need some samples, please.

Open a command prompt and look into the xcopy command, particularly the /d
option.

(xcopy /?)

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