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candera / hobocopy

An open source backup tool for Windows
http://candera.github.com/hobocopy/
MIT License
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Create FAQ #9

Open candera opened 13 years ago

candera commented 13 years ago

Migrated from SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2813368&group_id=117783&atid=679449

I would add a FAQ for the beginners like me regarding the creation of a initial statefile... I could suggest a text such as this:

!! FAQ !!! How-to create a statefile

The statefile required to do an incremental copy is an xml file. The incremental copy will fail if you don't provide the name of an existing and valid xml file. It will also fail if you simply provide an empty file as this is not a valid xml file.

The easiest to get a valid statefile is therefore to run first a full copy of something (or even a copy of nothing by providing a filespec matching with none of the files in the source directory). Ex.: hobocopy /statefile=myStateFile /full /y srcDrive:\srcPath destDrive:\destPath *.fake

candera commented 13 years ago

Migrated comment:

Great suggestion. I'm no longer spending time on Hobocopy, though, so this is going to have to wait until someone picks up development.

Thanks for the feedback!