[Discussion] Trouble using xcopy

[Stratton McAllister]

Thanks, Julian

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My backup strategy involves use of a maintenance partition.   I have a
cron job which starts the backups, and then uses setboot.exe to reboot to
the maintenance partition after setting a flag.  Startup folder in the
maint partition has the backup REXX program, which quits if it doesn't see
the flag file; otherwise backs up the primary boot partition and some
others.
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That's essentially what I do for our monthly full backups -- but for now, by 
hand.  I'll probably never get around to automating it -- unless your talk at 
Warpstock gets me going :-).

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Other than that, I use ZIP for the backups which avoids any XCOPY problems
that allegedly happen with too many files, and use REXXery to turn off the
A bits for all files on a full backup as well as to make a list of files
for the partial backups.
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Yeah, I've thought of using zip, but unfortunately it (at least the infozip I 
use) doesn't have anything corresponding to the xcopy /A-/M parameters.  So, 
as you indicate, I'd have to write a REXX program to create the file list I'd
need for a differential/incremental backup.  I'll probably actually go ahead 
and do that if I can't solve the xcopy SYS1192 problem.  

I gather then you think the SYS1192 is possibly an artifact of the way xcopy 
is implemented, perhaps like one of the several file handling problems that 
have been discussed here and on other OS/2-eCS forums recently, and is not 
likely to be fixed.  I guess from what I've been seeing that's not an 
unreasonable supposition.


Stratton