greetings all

this seems so silly, i know i have used xcopy successfully in the past (2 years or so ago) but here goes.

I have a small server in my domain to backup (428 mb) of developer code . The server is a cvs repository. My main file server is configured to be backed up everynight as it should be. We got into this development project DEEP and now the repository is critical and I needed to back up the 400 or so mb of development code.

Due to licensing restrictions, I am not able to install the client backup agent on the repository.

My solution is to map the repository drive to the file server as lets say z:\ . Then run an xcopy with alll the flags to only copy over "archive" or modified in x day files to a specified directory on the main file server.

When i try to run an xcopy <source> <destination> /l just to see if it will work, and see which files will be copied i get the "invalid number of parameters" spit back at me. I have tried this with xcopy /d /s /a whatever on a dead beat up ntserver just to figure out what is wrong. But only to get the same message spit at be again.

What happened 1to xcopy? or is it me? SP upgrade?

any help will be most appreciated

PEACE \/