Stan Brown on Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:05:59
-0400 typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
Robocopy supposedly understands the semiannual daylight-time shift,
and doesn't copy files in such cases, but I don't know how it knows.
I just make sure that I have updated my USB stick the last thing
before going to bed the night before the shift, so that even if the
timestamps are wrong the file contents are correct.
I think that is what I did Saturday night. Yep - even ran it a
second time and all that had changed were the game files.
Looping Owner at Documents C-loop
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ROBOCOPY :: Robust File Copy for Windows
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Started : Sat Mar 09 22:21:45 2019
Source : Q:\Documents\
Dest = R:\Documents\
Files : *.*
Exc Files : desktop.ini
Options : *.* /NDL /TEE /S /COPY
AT /PURGE /NP /XJ /R:1 /W:1
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Newer 5851 Q:\Documents\My Games\Beyond the
Sword\CivilizationIV.ini
Newer 5851 Q:\Documents\My Games\Beyond the
Sword\CivilizationIV.ini.bak
Newer 306 Q:\Documents\My Games\Beyond the
Sword\Logs\init.log
Newer 7556 Q:\Documents\My Games\Beyond the
Sword\Logs\PythonErr2.log
Newer 0 Q:\Documents\My Games\Beyond the
Sword\Logs\resmgr.log
Newer 483 Q:\Documents\My Games\Beyond the
Sword\Logs\xml.log
[Snippage ]
New File 698748 Q:\Documents\My Games\Beyond the
Sword\Saves\single\Julius R302A AD-1714 ASB End.CivBeyondSwordSave
Newer 1.1 m Q:\Documents\My Games\Beyond the
Sword\Saves\WorldBuilder\WBQuickSave.CivBeyondSwor dWBSave
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Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras
Dirs : 680 650 30 0 0 0
Files : 128 13 115 0 0 31
Bytes : 83.86 m 4.91 m 78.94 m 0 0 9.74 m
Times : 0:00:03 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:02
Speed : 5794775 Bytes/sec.
Speed : 331.579 MegaBytes/min.
Ended : Sat Mar 09 22:21:48 2019
This past weekend, after the time shift, out of hundreds of Eastern
Standard Time files on my USB stick, robocooy wanted to copy exactly
four. I don't know what made those different from the others, so I
don't know if robocopy does basically compensate for DST and just
failed with these four.
There is an option in robocopy to copy the timestamp of a file
without copying the file contents. You might want to use that, come
November.
As I have multiple backups, I can play with them till I either
runout or it is November.
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pyotr filipivich
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