[Discussion] Trouble using xcopy

[Stratton McAllister]

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You might want to consider using /M instead of /A so that the archive 
bit gets turned off when the file is copied.
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But then it's not a differential backup but incremental, which is not what I 
want.

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I think you may need to add the /E parm to get rid of the error messages.
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According to my manual the /E parameter has to do with copying directory 
structures, not errors.  Anyway, it's not the error message I need to get rid 
of but the error condition.

Stratton