Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
>> Another and probably simpler thing to try would be the GnuWin32 version
>> of cp. If we can verify that it behaves itself, we should probably
>> recommend it for use in archive_command instead of the native Windows
>> copy.
>>
>
> Perhaps use xcopy, which should be more ubiquitous?
>
>
I would be very surprised if xcopy did not exhibit the same
preallocating behaviour as copy.
cheers
andrew