Posted by 20080406 on April 06, 2008 at 21:38:10:
In Reply to: DOS: Quick question posted by The on April 01, 2008 at 18:03:30:
: Need to know how to set up an auto backup batch
: file for my woman..
: Can I just add two lines like this:
: Del D:\*.*
: xcopy C:\*.* d:\*.*
: Or will it try to begin copying and deleting all
: at once?
No, it will wait until the first line is done and then start processing the second.
: Also what switches do I need?
Depends on the Operating System and version.
: I want it to make a bootable copy of the master
: drive in case it'd crash.. I do not trust
: mobile drives :)
The "xcopy" command won't work ... not reliably anyway. You might try xxcopy: http://www.xxcopy.com (See the "/clone" switch).