[GRLUG] OT, .. simple backup tool?

[mooselikebriard]

@ Michael-

Thank you for adding that.  I unintentionally sent my post prematurely.  I
have ours set for specific user information but the whole profile is
definitely the way to go in this case.



On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Clay Ashby <kingpoiuy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yep xcopy is nice when configured correctly. Win7 comes with robocopy which
> is a big improvement to xcopy. If they have win7 I would recommend it.
>
> --Sent from my android.
>
> On Jan 7, 2011 12:05 PM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 ...
>
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