Backing up

[Jimmy1983]

Just wondering if there is some kinda software that will save me manually backing up my data?

At the moment all my new data get saved to my C drive edit and if I decicde to keep it transfer it to my D drive and then make an addition copy to my E drive, but this takes quite a while copying the same folder to each drive.

Maybe there is some software that will copy said docs to both drives?

 

[Jimmy1983]

Ah cool, either freeware? Can anyone recommend either?

E drive is my external HDD...but yeah I know what your saying.

 

[Jimmy1983]

Ah cool,thanks a lot. Hopefully this can save me a fair bit of time.

Thanks

 

[Jimmy1983]

your welcome, and yes it will save you loads of time

i was using syncback but have just moved back to synctoy

just prefer it

even though you have to set up automation through windows task scheduler


http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/11/13/synctoy-2-1-free-download-to-sync-multiple-folder-sets/

Wow, this looks great Just gave it a test run. Seems to work really well..love it This will save me loads of time now!

One thing whats the 'new folder pair' about?

Also how do you set up automation through windows task scheduler?

 

[Jimmy1983]

new folder pair means you can make different folders to copy, so you can choose which folders to backup/copy

dont quite follow what you mean here

 

[Jimmy1983]

i just use robocopy (built into windows already). i call it from a batch file so it takes a single click to run.

robocopy e:\ i:\ /MIR /xd "System Volume Information" "RECYCLER" "$RECYCLE.BIN" /LOG:f:\robocopy.txt /NP /TEE

e: is my source
i: is my destination
/MIR tells it i want to mirror e: - this means if i delete something from e, it also gets deleted from i:
/xd is to exclude directories
/LOG - should be obvious. not necessary but i always like to check it.

Any benefits over synctoy? Looks complicated