[GRLUG] OT, .. simple backup tool?

[Michael Mol]

Try:

xcopy %USERPROFILE% %BACKUPTARGETPLACE% /s /c /d /e /h /i /r /y

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.

Also of interest are %APPDATA% and %LOCALDATA%, but backing up %USERPROFILE%
should scoop those up as well.

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:59 AM, mooselikebriard <moosebriard at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
> You can modify the following....
>
> xcopy c:\docume~1\%USERNAME%\desktop\*.* H:\desktop\*.* /s /c /d /e /h /i
> /r /y
> xcopy C:\docume~1\%USERNAME%\Locals~1\Applic~1\Microsoft\Outlook\*.pst
> H:\EMAIL\*.pst /s /c /d /e /h /i /r /y
> xcopy C:\docume~1\%USERNAME%\Applic~1\Microsoft\Outlook\*.nk2 H:\EMAIL\*.*
> /s /c /d /e /h /i /r /y
>
>
> pause
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Matt Michielsen <mattmichielsen at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I up CrashPlan (http://crashplan.com/) on my machines about a week
>> ago.  It's a pretty awesome tool so far.
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > What version of Windows? Widows 7 seems to have some built-in tools for
>> > system backups and folder syncing.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:41 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I use rsync & rsnapshot for all of our backup jobs, .. but I have
>> friends
>> >> that I want to to 'educate' on using a USB backup drive at home; need
>> >> something more user friendly for backing up their documents folder.
>> [Windoze
>> >> machines, obviously.[
>> >>
>> >> Can anyone recommend a simple, OS tool for 'user controlled' backups?
>> >>  Where the user can click an icon and [rsync?] their documents folder
>> to an
>> >> external drive? Simple install without the shell setup required of
>> cwrsync
>> >> (=less overhead for me)?
>> >>
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