Try:<br><br>xcopy %USERPROFILE% %BACKUPTARGETPLACE% /s /c /d /e /h /i /r /y<br><br>I'm not personally familiar with xcopy, but that's better than hardcoding C:\...%USERNAME%. Documents and Setings became Users in Win7 and XP, and it's always been recommended to use environment variables and such for finding system-significant path.<br>
<br>Also of interest are %APPDATA% and %LOCALDATA%, but backing up %USERPROFILE% should scoop those up as well.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:59 AM, mooselikebriard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:moosebriard@gmail.com">moosebriard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div>For something simple like My Docs only I use Robocopy or xcopy via a batch file on the users desktop. They click and off it goes.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>You can modify the following....</div><div><br></div><div>
xcopy c:\docume~1\%USERNAME%\desktop\*.* H:\desktop\*.* /s /c /d /e /h /i /r /y<br>xcopy C:\docume~1\%USERNAME%\Locals~1\Applic~1\Microsoft\Outlook\*.pst H:\EMAIL\*.pst /s /c /d /e /h /i /r /y<br>xcopy C:\docume~1\%USERNAME%\Applic~1\Microsoft\Outlook\*.nk2 H:\EMAIL\*.* /s /c /d /e /h /i /r /y<br>
<br><br>pause<br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Matt Michielsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mattmichielsen@gmail.com" target="_blank">mattmichielsen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I up CrashPlan (<a href="http://crashplan.com/" target="_blank">http://crashplan.com/</a>) on my machines about a week<br>
ago. It's a pretty awesome tool so far.<br>
<div><div><br>
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> What version of Windows? Widows 7 seems to have some built-in tools for<br>
> system backups and folder syncing.<br>
><br>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:41 AM, L. V. Lammert <<a href="mailto:lvl@omnitec.net" target="_blank">lvl@omnitec.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I use rsync & rsnapshot for all of our backup jobs, .. but I have friends<br>
>> that I want to to 'educate' on using a USB backup drive at home; need<br>
>> something more user friendly for backing up their documents folder. [Windoze<br>
>> machines, obviously.[<br>
>><br>
>> Can anyone recommend a simple, OS tool for 'user controlled' backups?<br>
>> Where the user can click an icon and [rsync?] their documents folder to an<br>
>> external drive? Simple install without the shell setup required of cwrsync<br>
>> (=less overhead for me)?<br>
>><br>
>> TIA!<br>
>><br>
>> Lee<br>
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