 plencnerbPremium
join:2000-09-25
Elgin, IL
kudos:2 | reply to Jodokast96
Re: Verifying backupsI wrote my own backup script that runs every day to copy files from my main drive to a 2nd 500 GB HD.
Its mostly a lot of xcopy commands. For my pictures, the command is below (btw, I run that from the root of the "My Pictures folder")
xcopy /E /Y *.* "D:\System Backup\Pictures"
If I do a right-click on the folder "Pictures" I get the exact same size if I went to the actual "My Pictures" folder on my C drive.
In the above picture, my source is on the left, and my backup is on the right.
What should match is the number of files / folders, and the Size.
"Size on Disk" may be different, depending on a few factors, including fragmentation level, and if you have compression turned on or not.
For me, I know my xcopy command won't copy the "Protected operating system files", like "Desktop.ini" and "thumbs.db". If a number of them are present on your source drive, they may not be copied to your destination drive / media, which could result in a difference in total files and size.
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 Jodokast96Stupid people really piss me off.Premium
join:2005-11-23
Erial, NJ
kudos:2 | Plen - Total files and folders are the same, but total size is not. Is it possible that there would be 4-12gb of such OS files? That doesn't sound right to me.
Dave - The only problem with me using batch scripts is I don't know nearly enough about them to know what to actually use. |
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Jodokast96Stupid people really piss me off.Premium
join:2005-11-23
Erial, NJ
kudos:2 | Just did a quick search for Windiff and it does seem to be out there, but I wasn't too sure if any of the first few places that had it were safe. But I did find winmerge and am running it now. |
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