Xcopy file limit?

[celliott]

I'm currently working up some basic batch files to do incrmental backups of selected data.

I'm farmiliar with creating batch files etc however is it still the case that Xcopy will crap out after handling more than 5,000 files, or was that only in Windows 9X?

I know Robocopy is an option but I would rather stick to Xcopy for simplicity reasons.

Thanks

 

[uv]

I've used xcopy to copy an entire OS - I expect it was more than 5000 files - and it was fine

 

[kylew]

I'm currently working up some basic batch files to do incrmental backups of selected data.

I'm farmiliar with creating batch files etc however is it still the case that Xcopy will crap out after handling more than 5,000 files, or was that only in Windows 9X?

I know Robocopy is an option but I would rather stick to Xcopy for simplicity reasons.

Thanks

It'll copy more than 5000 files, I copied my steam folder, which contains about 130,000 files using xcopy, so you should be fine.

 

[eXor]

I've used xcopy to copy an entire OS - I expect it was more than 5000 files - and it was fine

Which OS? How long did it take?

 

[Raumarik]

before using ghost etc I use to use xcopy for OS copying too, long time ago though!

 

[oneilldo]

use robocopy