Subj : Re: XCOPY or COPY
To   : Michael Bednarek
From : aria1946
Date : Tue Feb 26 2002 02:06 pm

From: aria1946@f3.n342.z1.cereal.mv.com (aria1946)
Subject: Re: XCOPY or COPY

From: aria1946@hotmail.com.spoo

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 08:40:50 GMT, mb@tgm.com.au (Michael Bednarek) wrote:

>On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:27:22 GMT, aria1946@hotmail.com.spoo wrote in
>comp.os.msdos.4dos:
>
>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 19:17:53 GMT,
>>Jasen.Betts@xspamp42.f531.n640.z3.fidonet.org wrote:
>[snip]
>>>how do you want to deal with files that are on H but not on E ?
>>
>>I want 'em gone. I'd like to keep H: as a mirror of E:, more or less.
>
>So it's not irrelevant, as you wrote earlier :-)

Semantics. The contents of H: are irrelevant to me at the time the copy from E:
is made, because all I care about is the fact that H: accurately reflects the
contents of E:          :)

>Good luck.

Thanks.

I ended up doing a FORMAT H: /Q then a straight COPY with subdirs from E:. The
format took less than 30 seconds, the copy about 15 minutes.

A bit of history: the reason I started casting about for alternative backups is
that, for some reason, Back Again LE stopped making reliable backups when my E:
partition passed (roughly) the 2.79 gig mark. The backup procedure appeared to
work fine, and even the integrity check afterward would report no errors, but
when I randomly tried to restore a file from the backup created by BALE, it
reported some cryptic error number and simply stopped in its tracks (not
crashed).

The Back Again website specifically states that no tech support is provided
with the LE version (since it's free), and I could find no indication of a
later version (2.10d).

The BALE backups were uncompressed, because my previous experience with other
software that used compression was that more often than not, the compressed
output was more prone to corruption than uncompressed backups. YMMV.

Since from day one I've used H: only as a repository for my E: drive, I didn't
really care what method I used to create the backup, as long as it worked.

Tom
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