Backup by adding new files only?

[Guest Barry Schwarz]

Your understanding is incomplete. Go to winzip.com if you want to

 

research its capabilities. Only you can decide if its ability to

 

process only updated files and drill down through nested directories

 

satisfies your needs.

 

 

 

On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:55:37 +0900, Beyond X

 

wrote:

 

 

>Thanks for your thought.

 

>WinZip is a software for decompacting zip-, cab-files as I have

 

>understood. Before I purchase WinZip for a try, would you please

 

>elaborate how to use it in terms of my purpose? How advantageous is it

 

>as compared to dos command Xcopy? I have not used Robocopy, but is

 

>this applicable to my problem with or without additional merits?

 

>

 

>Barry Schwarz wrote:

 

>> On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:45:52 +0900, Beyond X

 

>> wrote:

 

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>>>I have a folder containing some five thousand files sorted in numerous

 

>>>subfolders, totaling about 800GB so far and counting. Just in case the

 

>>>harddrive is irrestorably broken, I occasionally safegurd by copying

 

>>>the entire folder on another drive. Such a task naturally takes long,

 

>>>long time (two days or longer) even though only a small fraction of

 

>>>the file population is newly created or modified, if I use ordinary

 

>>>backup softwares.

 

>>>It will be very helpful and productive, however, if a program is

 

>>>available that first examine the backup drive to see if a file with

 

>>>the same name already exists in a corresponding subfolder and, if so,

 

>>>determine whether or not its content is identical so that copying

 

>>>(overwriting) is unnecessary.

 

>>>Can someone guide me to such a backup software?

 

>>

 

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>> WinZip can do it.

 

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