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Adding only new files to a backup folder
I have a folder containing some five thousand files sorted in numerous
subfolders, totaling about 800GB so far and counting. I occasionally add a new file to an appropriate subfolder. So far I safegurd by copying the entire folder on a backup drive. Such a task naturally takes long, long time (two days or longer) even though only a small fraction of the files population is newly created or modified. I am looking for a way that first compares the backup folder witht the parent folder to isolate newly added files and then copies them to the existing backup folder. This way I should be able to save a huge amount of waiting time. Is there a backup or copying software which can just do it? |
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Adding only new files to a backup folder
Hello Beyond
Beyond X wrote: I have a folder containing some five thousand files sorted in numerous subfolders, totaling about 800GB so far and counting. I occasionally add a new file to an appropriate subfolder. So far I safegurd by copying the entire folder on a backup drive. Such a task naturally takes long, long time (two days or longer) even though only a small fraction of the files population is newly created or modified. I am looking for a way that first compares the backup folder witht the parent folder to isolate newly added files and then copies them to the existing backup folder. This way I should be able to save a huge amount of waiting time. Is there a backup or copying software which can just do it? I hope anything that calls itself backup software is up to the job! You've asked this in a newsgroup for Microsoft Word, though -- I hope you don't want to do this with Word (even though it might be possible with VBA :-)). I think even XCOPY or COPY (in cmd.exe or a batch file) should be up to the job. That's what the DOS Archive-Flag is for. HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports X Against HTML | for | with Word? / \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/ |
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