A simple request... you would think [Archive]

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D-Bone

Apr 2nd '03, 12:44 PM

Ok, I'm looking for a simple utility. Here's what I want it to do.

1. Copy files/directories choosing location and destination.
2. Preserve long file names.
3. If it hits a corrupt file or file in use or any other error, it SKIPS it and moves on. No recovery, no stopping, just skip it and continue with next file.

If any of you guys have seen something that would work for this, please let me know.

Dante

Apr 2nd '03, 01:02 PM

ask and ye shall recieve

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~roadkil/

D-Bone

Apr 2nd '03, 03:54 PM

This program however will continue to copy the file right to the end. Any data that is not recoverable after many retries is replaced with blanks. This will allow you to truely recover every byte of information that is available for recovery.

I've tried this program, its lame. I don't want recovery, I want it to SKIP the bad files.

Dante

Apr 2nd '03, 04:30 PM

oh :oops:

Guess I'll keep looking....

{OOE}Death

Apr 2nd '03, 07:56 PM

dd is your friend. or even cp -R -f. That's assuming it's a real os. not this winblows crap.

D-Bone

Apr 3rd '03, 12:07 AM

Well, considering our entire customer base uses Windows, I need a utility that runs in 9x/NT/ME/2000/XP.

Ghost

Apr 3rd '03, 11:33 AM

I've used XXCOPY before and it seems to work well. There are about a billion options, but it works a lot like xcopy. It basically doesn't chicken out on errors like xcopy does. You can get it here:

http://www.xcopy.com

You'll also notice that it is free for personal use but you need to buy it to use for a company. I've used this before at Eaton School District when there xcopy based backup would fail on files it couldn't access due to security. It did solve the problem, but we ended up going with actual backup software that could backup all the files correctly.

Dante

Apr 3rd '03, 12:08 PM

D-Bone

Apr 3rd '03, 12:13 PM

Ghosty, you are my hero. Thank you.