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Backup script avoid My Music

I want to backup all in Mydocument on everyone's computer, so I wrote the following batch file:

xcopy "%userprofile%\My Documents\*.*" "I:\Backup\" /c/f/h/d/y/s/e

How can I rewrite this to copy all in My Documents but avoid the folder 'My Music'

Farhan Kazi

You can use /EXCLUDE switch of XCOPY command.
Like:

@ECHO My Music >ExcludeList.txt
xcopy "%userprofile%\My Documents\*.*"   "I:\Backup\" /c/f/h/d/y/s/e /EXCLUDE:ExcludeList.txt

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Farhan Kazi

Sorry exclude list file should be in following format:

\My Music\
\My Videos\
\Any other folder\

@ECHO \My Music\>ExcludeList.txt
xcopy "%userprofile%\My Documents\*.*"   "I:\Backup\" /c/f/h/d/y/s/e /EXCLUDE:ExcludeList.txt

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al4629740

ASKER

Is this how I would do multiple folders?

@ECHO \My Music\>ExcludeList.txt
@ECHO \My Videos\>ExcludeList.txt
xcopy "%userprofile%\My Documents\*.*"   "I:\Backup\" /c/f/h/d/y/s/e /EXCLUDE:ExcludeList.txt

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al4629740

ASKER

So a third would look like this:

@ECHO \My Music\>ExcludeList.txt
@ECHO \My Videos\>>ExcludeList.txt
@ECHO \My Pictures\>>ExcludeList.txt
xcopy "%userprofile%\My Documents\*.*"   "I:\Backup\" /c/f/h/d/y/s/e /EXCLUDE:ExcludeList.txt

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Farhan Kazi

Yes, exactly