Which Back-Up software?

Ryan111 · 21 Sep 2010 at 18:50

I have bought 2 x 1TB drives to put the bulk of my media on. I have so far put it onto the first drive and want to know which software would allow me to run a copy from 1 to the other every night at say 3am (Its in my server left on 24/7)

I have used synctoy before, but it has issues copying files if they are in use (which could happen if I set downloads over night etc)

Is there any software that will skip the "in-use" items and come back to them at the end? Or even skip it, and I could just set the back up to run at say 1am, 4am, 7am etc?

Sorry if im not making much sense

Ryan111 · 22 Sep 2010 at 00:10

Putting the active downloads in a seperate folder should have been straight forward, but I completely overlooked it

I will have a look at robocopy, thanks

Ryan111 · 22 Sep 2010 at 16:15

I have seperated my "Downloading" and "Downloaded" folders, so that makes things much easier.

How would I set robocopy to copy the entire contents of D:/ to E:/ bar one folder? Can you exclude folders? And how would I run it as a scheduled task?

Ryan111 · 22 Sep 2010 at 22:32

Right, so my downloading folder is D:/Downloading (Keeping it simple)

So the robocopy command would be

Code:

robocopy "D:\" "E:\" /S /XD "D:\Downloading"

I want E:/ to become a 'mirror' image of D:/, Ie, if I delete something on D, it deletes it on E? And also not the other way round, so If i delete something of E, it doesnt delete of D.