Anybody used XXCOPY????
jf...@lava.net
every file on the HD to backup media such as burners, zip, etc??
Is the "clone" switch the proper way to do it from within
Win95??
Joe (aka kilroy)
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Richard Collins
<jf...@lava.net> wrote in message news:afiftd$48k$1...@mochi.lava.net...
> Has anyone used the xxcopy.exe program. Does it really copy
> every file on the HD to backup media such as burners, zip, etc??
> Is the "clone" switch the proper way to do it from within
> Win95??
It will not copy "open" files.
Never heard of the "clone" switch.
Felix Miata
> Has anyone used the xxcopy.exe program. Does it really copy
> every file on the HD to backup media such as burners, zip, etc??
> Is the "clone" switch the proper way to do it from within
> Win95??
Worked perfectly every time I used it with /clone. It doesn't copy the
swapper, but there's absolutely no point doing that anyway.
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Kan Yabumoto
XXCOPY can copy nearly all files in the Win9X system so that
you can make a bootable backup of your system disk.
http://www.xxcopy.com/clone for details.
As far as "open" files are concerned, it all depends on
how the first program which opens the file determins the
fate of how subsequent accesses to the open file is made
by other programs. When a well-written program which tends
keep the open file for a very long time, usually makes the
file open using read-share mode. In this scenario, the
program locks either a part of or the whole file while it
updates the file. The access by other programs will be
blocked during this (usually) short period of time. When
the file is accessed by another program while the file is
*NOT* locked, the 2nd program can access the file in
read-only mode. In networked environments, file-sharing
takes place all the time.
As a matter of fact, the system registry files (SYSTEM.DAT
and USER.DAT) are *ALLWAYS* open by KERNEL32.DLL. Nevertheless,
XXCOPY can successfully copy these files into the backup volume.
So, it is not always true that "open" files are not accessible.
Usually when a program opens a file, even if the access is not
shared, the duration of the file-open relatively short. And,
a resonable amount of retry-after-failure timeout period makes
most file-share problems go away.
So, while some open files are not accessible by other programs
no matter how long they wait, that is not always the case.
To find out more, you may ask the same question at the
XXCOPY discussion group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xxcopy/
where XXCOPY enthusiasts will tell you their experience with it.
Kan Yabumoto
Author of XXCOPY
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