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- By using the /S and /M options, XCOPY can be used as an alternative to the
- BACKUP and RESTORE commands, and it is usually faster. Also, XCOPY can do
- more with subdirectorys than BACKUP.
-
- The copied files can be restored to a hard disk with the XCOPY or COPY
- commands (but not RESTORE), or even used directly while on the backup
- diskette.
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- However, XCOPY is different from BACKUP in several ways:
- XCOPY cannot backup files larger than a single diskette, while BACKUP
- can.
- XCOPY does not delete all files on the destination before commencing
- a copy operation (as BACKUP does without the /A option), so
- the destination diskette should be formatted and empty of
- files and directories.
- To backup ALL the files on a disk using the /M option of XCOPY, the
- ATTRIB command must be used to first set the archive attribute
- before executing XCOPY.