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Originally Posted by pjphilli
Thanks Alistair and Arif - I have downloaded Robocopy but am a bit puzzled how to use it.
Cheers Peter
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Hi,
Robocopy is a command line copy utility with very powerful features.
Not sure if you're familiar with DOS copy, but its similar.
at a very simple level, just to get understand how it works,
create a folder in your drive, and copy the robocopy.exe file into it.
create a few test folders with files, one representing the source and one as the destination.
then from the command prompt, run robocopy with the syntax shown in
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...33145(v=ws.10)
This page shows you some examples
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...-examples.aspx
Try out different options as listed, just use the ones you need.
so first time it runs, it'll copy all files, next time, it'll copy only the ones that changed. so edit or make changes to a file and run it again.
once you're happy with the syntax, just create a new batch file, add it to windows scheduler and set the interval it needs to run at.
But honestly, if a daily backup at a particular time is sufficient for you, stick to the windows xp backup and use the advanced scheduler as in earlier posts.
We use robocopy for a lot of after hours WAN transfers and it works great, but there's some pretty heavy scripting there.