[wix-devs] To copy folder as back up file

Sulfikar Nasar sulfikarnasar at gmail.com
Thu May 4 06:33:02 PDT 2017


Hi,
    I would like to copy a folder containing numerous folders and files to
somewhere as the backup for current installation. I used the 'CopyFile' tag
for that but didn't make any result.

<Directory Id="ProgramFiles64Folder" Name="Program Files"  >
        <Directory Id="MyMediaFiles" Name="My Media">

        </Directory>
        <Directory Id="INSTALLLOCATION" Name="My Media_Backup">
          <Component Id="CreateBackupEmpressMediaFile"
Guid="bc358382-9a0e-490c-9d53-86cc2b3a07f1" Win64="yes" KeyPath="yes">
            <CreateFolder/>

          </Component>
          <Component Id="BackupBinaries"
Guid="b68c441b-4ef7-4031-8fc0-c3a09dd5e87b">
            <CopyFile Id="cmpBackupMyMedia" SourceProperty="MyMediaFiles"
SourceName="*" DestinationProperty="INSTALLLOCATION"/>
          </Component>
        </Directory>
      </Directory>
Thanks in advance
With Regards,
Sulfikar Nasar


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