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From: Howard Brazee on 19 Apr 2010 14:07
I synchronize some files with a Unix server with a batch file that
contains the following commands:

xcopy "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\calendars\*.*"
%mydrive%%mybase%calendars\*.* /Y/D /Exclude:c:\belfry\ICSexclude.txt

Xcopy "%mydrive%%mybase%calendars" "%USERPROFILE%\My
Documents\calendars\*.*" /Y/D

(each of the above is one line).

Trouble is, the Unix server must have slightly different time, so I
get files copied every time I run this. So I downloaded Unison,
renamed the text version and tried to figure out how to run it

I downloaded Unison and am trying to use it, but so far haven't gotten
the syntax to replace those lines. Is there a better way of doing
this? Or do you have example .bat lines using Unison for this?


Thanks.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison
From: Pegasus [MVP] on 19 Apr 2010 14:49


"Howard Brazee" <howard(a)brazee.net> wrote in message
news:q96ps51165eo2b53mqsiqgug6d2cu7jc9b(a)4ax.com...
> I synchronize some files with a Unix server with a batch file that
> contains the following commands:
>
> xcopy "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\calendars\*.*"
> %mydrive%%mybase%calendars\*.* /Y/D /Exclude:c:\belfry\ICSexclude.txt
>
> Xcopy "%mydrive%%mybase%calendars" "%USERPROFILE%\My
> Documents\calendars\*.*" /Y/D
>
> (each of the above is one line).
>
> Trouble is, the Unix server must have slightly different time, so I
> get files copied every time I run this. So I downloaded Unison,
> renamed the text version and tried to figure out how to run it
>
> I downloaded Unison and am trying to use it, but so far haven't gotten
> the syntax to replace those lines. Is there a better way of doing
> this? Or do you have example .bat lines using Unison for this?
>
>
> Thanks.

xcopy.exe has been deprecated for some time. I recommend you use
robocopy.exe with this switch:

/FFT :: assume FAT File Times (2-second granularity).

I believe the third-party tool xxcopy.exe has a similar switch.

From: Pegasus [MVP] on 19 Apr 2010 14:56


"Howard Brazee" <howard(a)brazee.net> wrote in message
news:q96ps51165eo2b53mqsiqgug6d2cu7jc9b(a)4ax.com...
> I synchronize some files with a Unix server with a batch file that
> contains the following commands:
>
> xcopy "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\calendars\*.*"
> %mydrive%%mybase%calendars\*.* /Y/D /Exclude:c:\belfry\ICSexclude.txt
>
> Xcopy "%mydrive%%mybase%calendars" "%USERPROFILE%\My
> Documents\calendars\*.*" /Y/D
>
> (each of the above is one line).
>
> Trouble is, the Unix server must have slightly different time, so I
> get files copied every time I run this. So I downloaded Unison,
> renamed the text version and tried to figure out how to run it
>
> I downloaded Unison and am trying to use it, but so far haven't gotten
> the syntax to replace those lines. Is there a better way of doing
> this? Or do you have example .bat lines using Unison for this?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
> than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
> to the legislature, and not to the executive department."
>
> - James Madison

Hobocopy (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wangdera/files/HoboCopy/) is
another possibility. It has this switch:

/incremental - Perform an incremental copy. Only files that have
changed since the last full copy will be copied.


From: Howard Brazee on 19 Apr 2010 15:14
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:56:36 +0200, "Pegasus [MVP]"
<news(a)microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hobocopy (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wangdera/files/HoboCopy/) is
>another possibility. It has this switch:
>
>/incremental - Perform an incremental copy. Only files that have
> changed since the last full copy will be copied.
>

I downloaded this and tried hobocopy /? to get a window saying this
isn't a valid Win32 application.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison
From: Howard Brazee on 19 Apr 2010 15:37
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:49:33 +0200, "Pegasus [MVP]"
<news(a)microsoft.com> wrote:

>xcopy.exe has been deprecated for some time. I recommend you use
>robocopy.exe with this switch:
>
> /FFT :: assume FAT File Times (2-second granularity).
>
>I believe the third-party tool xxcopy.exe has a similar switch.

That looks good. Some other syntax appears to be different, I don't
see an option for /Exclude:c:\belfry\myExclude.txt so I have to play
around a bit.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison
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