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Hi Experts,<br />
We have a script (based on xcopy in Win2003 server) that copies all new or changed files on one drive to a &quot;backup&quot; drive. Can anyone suggest a way to make a script that can be run from the command line to see if a file was deleted from the original drive and then delete it from the &quot;backup&quot; drive?<br />
The concept is simple enough but I can't quite get how to do it. <br />
Perhaps an if exist and then write the filenames into a list, then delete the list?<br />
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I have NO understanding of VB, so that's no help to me, but I can follow a shell script.<br />
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Thanks. &nbsp;<br />

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Hi Experts,
We have a script (based on xcopy in Win2003 server) that copies all new or changed files on one drive to a "backup" drive. Can anyone suggest a way to make a script that can be run from the command line to see if a file was deleted from the original drive and then delete it from the "backup" drive?
The concept is simple enough but I can't quite get how to do it. 
Perhaps an if exist and then write the filenames into a list, then delete the list?

I have NO understanding of VB, so that's no help to me, but I can follow a shell script.

Thanks.  


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