need simple Back-up / sync software

swinnie · 20 Oct 2008 at 17:17

Robocopy is awesome!

Does it do incremental backups?

helmutcheese · 20 Oct 2008 at 17:51

SyncToy 2.0 Final fixes any previous issue from 1.4 or 2.0 Beta.

bledd · 20 Oct 2008 at 18:35

swinnie said:
Robocopy is awesome!

Does it do incremental backups?

yes, they are incremental

so will only copy newly updated and new files (after the first run)

_Jimlad_ · 20 Oct 2008 at 21:15

cool looking fwd to setting it up tomorrow

_Jimlad_ · 20 Oct 2008 at 22:07

bledd. said:
jimlad..

robocopy /e "c:\source" "d:\destination"

that's exactly what you want mate

the '/e' makes it copy all files and folders from the source to the destination, if files exist at the destination that don't at the source, it just leaves them there and doesn't care about them..

ok ran a 'robocopy /e "C:\Users\Jimmy\Documents" "G:\Jimmy\Documents"' and it worked well! so can i add other lines underneith? and am i right in thinking each time i run it, it will update and not overwrite?

_Jimlad_ · 20 Oct 2008 at 22:16

it seems to compy most files but gets too this msg, about my music, i'm confused as the path for my music is C:\Users\Jimmy\Music so why is it looking for that?

_Jimlad_ · 21 Oct 2008 at 14:57

so any ideas on this one guys?

bledd · 21 Oct 2008 at 15:04

i reckon you've copied or upgrade xp docuemnts to vista

check the path..

c:\users\jimmy\documents

see if there's a 'my music' (xp naming scheme) folder in there, also enable hidden files when doing it, looks like you'll have to take ownership of that folder to open it.

"am i right in thinking each time i run it, it will update and not overwrite?"

yes, it'll only copy any new files you add to the folder.. (so each run after the first will be super fast)

and yes you can add more lines.. eg..

title Bledd's backups
color 9f
echo About to start backing up...
pause

color cf

robocopy /e c:\users\bledd\music d:\backup\music
robocopy /e c:\users\bledd\videos d:\backup\videos

color a0
title Backup Complete
pause

"

if you can't be bothered to fix the My Music problem, you could just tell robocopy to skip it..

robocopy /e c:\source d:\dest /XD "c:\source\my music"

have a play with the color thing..

color /? will tell you what options there are..

_Jimlad_ · 21 Oct 2008 at 16:41

bledd. said:
i reckon you've copied or upgrade xp docuemnts to vista

check the path..

c:\users\jimmy\documents

see if there's a 'my music' (xp naming scheme) folder in there, also enable hidden files when doing it, looks like you'll have to take ownership of that folder to open it.

"am i right in thinking each time i run it, it will update and not overwrite?"

yes, it'll only copy any new files you add to the folder.. (so each run after the first will be super fast)

and yes you can add more lines.. eg..

title Bledd's backups
color 9f
echo About to start backing up...
pause

color cf

robocopy /e c:\users\bledd\music d:\backup\music
robocopy /e c:\users\bledd\videos d:\backup\videos

color a0
title Backup Complete
pause

"

if you can't be bothered to fix the My Music problem, you could just tell robocopy to skip it..

robocopy /e c:\source d:\dest /XD "c:\source\my music"

have a play with the color thing..

color /? will tell you what options there are..

strange one that, i tried to add a folder called my music, but it said already there, however not showing even with hidden and system folders. so i deleted documents and then created a new folder called doucments and then readded the file... robo worked fine!

_Jimlad_ · 21 Oct 2008 at 16:52

ok step 2 then! ha ha

so how do i get it to mirror what files i have?

robocopy /e C:\Users\Jimmy\Documents f:\Jimmy\Documents

bulb66 · 25 Oct 2008 at 17:42

Hi,

I thought i would give ROBOCOPY a go and overall it's pretty good, however using the example in the thead mine still seems to back-up previously backed-up files?

here's my BAT file:

Code:

@echo off

title James' backups

robocopy  "C:\Documents and Settings\James\My Documents\My Pictures" "Z:\My Pictures" /E
robocopy  "C:\Documents and Settings\James\My Documents\My Music" "Z:\My Music" /E
robocopy  "C:\Documents and Settings\James\My Documents\My Videos" "Z:\My Videos" /E
robocopy  "C:\Documents and Settings\James\My Documents\My Downloads" "Z:\My Downloads" /E
robocopy  "C:\Documents and Settings\James\My Documents\Word" "Z:\My Documents\Word" /E


title Backup Complete
pause

Any ideas why it is copying files over and over again?

Thanks

James

_Jimlad_ · 25 Oct 2008 at 18:07

bulb66 said:
Hi,

I thought i would give ROBOCOPY a go and overall it's pretty good, however using the example in the thead mine still seems to back-up previously backed-up files?

here's my BAT file:

Code:

@echo off title James' backups robocopy "C:\Documents and Settings\James\My Documents\My Pictures" "Z:\My Pictures" /E robocopy "C:\Documents and Settings\James\My Documents\My Music" "Z:\My Music" /E robocopy "C:\Documents and Settings\James\My Documents\My Videos" "Z:\My Videos" /E robocopy "C:\Documents and Settings\James\My Documents\My Downloads" "Z:\My Downloads" /E robocopy "C:\Documents and Settings\James\My Documents\Word" "Z:\My Documents\Word" /E title Backup Complete pause

Any ideas why it is copying files over and over again?

Thanks

James

dunno mate can't see the end of the line, i have mine set to mirror and that deletes or adds whatever is needed to mirror the paths...

robocopy C:\Users\Jimmy\music f:\music /MIR /R:50
robocopy C:\Users\Jimmy\Pictures F:\Pictures /MIR /R:50
robocopy C:\Users\Jimmy\Utilities F:\Utilities /MIR /R:50
robocopy C:\Users\Jimmy\Videos F:\Videos /MIR /R:50
robocopy C:\Users\Jimmy\Documents F:\Archive\documents /MIR /R:50

bulb66 · 25 Oct 2008 at 18:38

What do you mean you can't see the end of the line? Can't you scroll the code window.

I don't want to delete any thing on the destination, i just want to add files that i save to my local machine then run the batch file and add them to my NAS.

I will have a look at some ROBOCOPY switches to see if i can find what i'm after, but if anyone else has any ideas please let me know.

James

_Jimlad_ · 25 Oct 2008 at 18:48

lol i thought it was a screen shot

- sorry dude

bulb66 · 27 Oct 2008 at 15:49

Lol that's ok.

Haven't been able to fix this, although i have noticed that it is copying files that i have moved into subfolders at the destination? Does ROBOCOPY not read subfolders for files?

James

_Jimlad_ · 27 Oct 2008 at 17:14

it seems to on mine, you getting any errors? maybe your should download MS synctoy 2, does the same thing but it's a program rather than a typed batch file

bledd · 28 Oct 2008 at 09:34

bulb46, it doesn't copy them each time, but the program does scan through each file to compare them.. (to make sure they're the same)

it's only copying if you see the % thing coming up..

as a test.. put a 1gb file in your 'word' folder and the first time it'll take a while to copy it, the 2nd time it'll just scan over it..

bulb66 · 30 Oct 2008 at 12:32

Hi Bledd,

I just downloaded an UT2003 file which is 149.6MB, i then ran my .bat file and it copied it over, then deleted everything in my local downloads folder but left this file, i then ran the bat file again and it copied the file again it had the % next to it as well?

any ideas?

here's the output from the bat file for the My Downloads folder, if that helps?

James

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                Total    Copied   Skipped  Mismatch    FAILED    Extras
     Dirs :         1         0         1         0         0        40
    Files :         2         2         0         0         0       175
    Bytes :  149.78 m  149.78 m         0         0         0   3.252 g
    Times :   0:01:55   0:01:54                       0:00:00   0:00:00

    Speed :             1368578 Bytes/sec.
    Speed :              78.310 MegaBytes/min.

    Ended : Thu Oct 30 12:24:35 2008
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bledd · 30 Oct 2008 at 12:35

it seems to think it's an older version of the file..?

try from the same drive..

ie..

robocopy c:\test1 c:\test2