Vantage
11-06-01, 05:49 AM
Problem: 10gigs of mp3s are to be backed up onto CD-R/W in preparation for a reformat. In hopes of never having to burn that many discs at 4x again, I would like to only backup the files that are new or changed from this point on. (ie In the future I would only need to backup mp3s I added to my \mp3s directory structure or ones where I've changed the ID3 tag. A one CD-RW task at most.)
To do this, I need to compare the current state of the directory structure (filenames, length, modified dates, etc) to the state at the future backup date. This can be done two ways:
1. Save the current state in a text file or something, and compare this text file to one generated in the future.
2. At the future date, read off all the file information from the CD-RW archives.
Now the real problem: I can't find software that will do either of these!!! There are exacty 1 bajillion freeware programs on the net that will compare two directories, but none of them seem to save the state. BASK (http://freebask.homestead.com/ ) was sooo close to pulling off #2, but wouldn't concatenate the CD data when scanning. So has anybody run into this problem before and have any helpful suggestions/software?? Yes, I realize this would probably take 2min in UNIX, but I'm running win2k.
To do this, I need to compare the current state of the directory structure (filenames, length, modified dates, etc) to the state at the future backup date. This can be done two ways:
1. Save the current state in a text file or something, and compare this text file to one generated in the future.
2. At the future date, read off all the file information from the CD-RW archives.
Now the real problem: I can't find software that will do either of these!!! There are exacty 1 bajillion freeware programs on the net that will compare two directories, but none of them seem to save the state. BASK (http://freebask.homestead.com/ ) was sooo close to pulling off #2, but wouldn't concatenate the CD data when scanning. So has anybody run into this problem before and have any helpful suggestions/software?? Yes, I realize this would probably take 2min in UNIX, but I'm running win2k.