Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!scs!cognos!crcmar!patrick
From: patrick@crcmar.uucp (Andrew Patrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Troubles with MSDOS 3.2 XCOPY
Message-ID: <923@crcmar.uucp>
Date: 31 Aug 88 13:29:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: crcmar.923
References: <3143@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: patrick@crcmar.UUCP (Andrew Patrick)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: The Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, CANADA
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Summary: XCOPY works fine here.

In article <3143@tekig4.TEK.COM> mstevens@tekig4.TEK.COM (Michael
Stevens) writes:

>Anybody know why "xcopy" is unreliable??  I get the general impression
>that MKSToolKit allows me the features I want with some reliability.  Truth??
>I've also heard that FastBak is good.  Any recommendations??

After trying a couple of "fast" backup utilities (including something
called COREfast), around here we went to XCOPY because it preserves
subdirectories, makes any single file recoverable, and is highly
RELIABLE.  We are running 9 AT clones with DOS 3.2.  On a daily (or
weekly) basis we run XCOPY C:\*.* A:\ /s/m/v -- this picks up the files
with the archive bit set.  We have had no problems after about 6 months
of doing this.  Based on your comments, I hope this continues, but I
can't recommend any "fast" backup utility.

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