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how to exlude some extensions to a xcopy in bat

Hi i have a bat that put me all the new files to an external 2 TB usb disk

i been infected by ranscrypto and i want to exclude of my backup the .HLUTBTE extension

is any way to achive that in my .bat file

my bat file is like

echo on
xcopy d:\ H:\ /s /e /D /Y /C

tsm you experts

regards edo

Will Szymkowski

All you need to do is add the /EXCLUDE switch, like below...

echo on
 xcopy d:\  H:\  /s /e /D /Y /C /EXCLUDE:.HLUTBTE

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Below is the exact help from xcopy /?

/EXCLUDE:file1[+file2][+file3]...
Specifies a list of files containing strings. Each string
should be in a separate line in the files. When any of the
strings match any part of the absolute path of the file to be
copied, that file will be excluded from being copied. For
example, specifying a string like \obj\ or .obj will exclude
all files underneath the directory obj or all files with the
.obj extension respectively.

Will.

Rezwan Islam

Will is right but however I couldn't make it work this way. So I used a text file with all the extensions that needed to be excluded and used the EXCLUDE flag like this instead;

/EXCLUDE:Drive:\exclusionFileName.txt

Ernesto

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Pelase put it in my bat

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Ernesto

ASKER

exclude do not acept *.hlutubte

error
cant read *.hlutubte
regards

Ernesto

ASKER

Tsm
regards!!!