On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:56:28 +1200, Russell McMahon wrote:
> What I actually said was meant to scan as something like "XXCOPY is
> extremely good (note that I'm not referring to Microsoft's XCOPY but to a
> free for private use alternative that knocks XCOPY into a cocked hat and
> kicks it down stairs, all before breakfast, and did I note that it was
> free for private use?) and is free for private use".
>
> XXCOPY has far far far more functionality than XCOPY. The older versions
> may be more useable than the latest versions in some situations. And it's
> free for private use.

I've been using the "paid" version for about two years now to backup my
servers and network workstations. I run script files on the servers with
"Lauchpad" (an excellent and reliable scheduler) which calls batch files
with XXCopy commands.

One server is a backup server and mirrors the primary server every hour
plus does weekly off-site backups to a removeable hard drive. The primary
server does hourly, daily and weekly backups of itself and the 5 other
workstations on my network. It's all very efficient and just keeps working.
Theses are Windows 2000 systems, BTW.

You might think backing up 5 workstations every hour would be time
consuming and network intensive but because XXCopy has some extensive
differencing options the whole process only takes 6-8 minutes per hour.

It's awfully nice having automatic backups of everything back to the last
hour, day, week or month when you have one of those "oops" moments.
Obviously having a rotation of 4 weekly off-site backups is a good thing
too.

This is the best backup system I've had in 20+ years of my consulting
business. It's simple, reliable and works quietly in the background.

Matt Pobursky
Maximum Performance Systems


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