Software for automated backups?

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I've just got a new 1Tb Western Digital MyBook network storage device which i'm planning to use primarily for backup of all the content on my media centre machine, and main PC.

I'm looking for a bit of software which can be used to just mirror the contents of certain folders (which i can specify) from the HTPC onto the network storage, and to be scheduled to run overnight each day. The network storage will be connected via Gb LAN to the HTPC machine, but i need software that examines the contents of a folder each time, and just copies over what is new /changed

any recommendations? :)
 
There is an excellent bit of software for Linux called Backuppc which does exactly what you described. For Windows, there are various bits of software that do that for Mac I have no idea
 
mate, robocopy (gui) is what you want


download link here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc160891.aspx , just chuck the robocopy exe in system32 folder, and cmd it with a /? after

here's a copy of robocopy http://bleddyn.co.uk/creations/ROBOCOPY.EXE

you'll be able to work out the rest

for multiple main folders, ie C:\Music and C:\Data , you're better off putting two lines into the bat file

ie have..

robocopy c:\Music /e E:\music
robocopy c:\Data /e E:\Data

or you can do a single line and, and tell it which folders (and files (eg pagefile.sys)) to ignore

very very powerful program, synctoy is the newbie version of it and leaves traces in the folders (which can be a PITA)


-edit, pretty sure Vista comes with the robocopy exe in system32 anyway
 
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