Re: FN-FORUM: Windows Backup Script

date posted 26th May 2006 18:35

Hi Dave

Could this also be used the other way around, so that instead of just
backing up to the external hard drive, you can download any edited files
from it to the local hard drive? (so I can sync both ways)

SO
XCOPY C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My Documents\*.* G:\My Documents /E /D
/R /Y

BECOMES
XCOPY G:\My Documents\*.* C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My Documents /E /D
/R /Y

Will that work?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Boulden" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 1:08 PM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Windows Backup Script


>
> It most certainly is... Just use a USB Hard drive or memory drive which
> will
> appear as a normal hard drive. Then just creat a batch script to copy the
> directory to that drive. I do a similar thing for daily backups (the BAT
> file is scheduled in Windows Task scheduler and copies files, does
> Database
> backups and some time later Nero fires up and burns the lot to DVD-RW).
>
> Here's the kind of command I use to do the file copying (where
> C:\somedirectory\ is the directory you want to backup and X: is the drive
> letter for your external USB drive)
>
>
> XCOPY C:\somedirectory\*.* X:\backupdirectory /E /D /R /Y
>
>
> Copy that into a text editor and save the file as "mybackup.cmd" onto your
> desktop. Double click the file and it will copy all files and
> subdirectories
> in C:\somedirectory\ to the USB drive... but only those files that are new
> or have changed since the last time you ran it rather than copying the
> while
> lot each time.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Dave.