From the course: System Administration: Backup and Recovery
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Copy backups
From the course: System Administration: Backup and Recovery
Copy backups
- [Instructor] Copy backups are another way that we can back up our data on our servers and clients. Copy backups usually utilize a small utility that may be already a part of an operating system. For instance, in the Windows server we have a utility that's included called xcopy. And you can see here a command starting with xcopy, that will copy all of the information that's in the data folder, and copy it to another server called server in a folder that's shared, called data. So we see here the /s, that means it's going to cover a sub directory, /o is going to copy over the ownership information, so you don't have to recreate that, /d will copy since the last date. So if you run this command a second time, and somebody makes a change to a file, then it's going to cover that file again and overwrite the older one. Then we have the source, the c:\data, which is local, and then we have the destination, which is the server.…
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