3 Simple Ways to
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PhotosPhotos

Share one or more photos of a project, recipe, or whatever you've made, quickly and easily.

Step by StepStep-By-Step

Share your step-by-step photos with text instructions of what you made so others can do it too!

VideoVideo

Share your how-to video. You'll need your embed code from a video site such as YouTube.

Roll your own version control/automated backup

Step 3Part 1: archive.bat

Part 1: archive.bat
For the purposes of the rest of this Instructable I will assume that you have a set of .Java source files, a work-in-progress dissertation (Dissertation.doc) and a folder full of resource files (\Images). These illustrate the three main types of things you are likely to want to backup.

If all you want is to create a nice tidy archive that you can put somewhere safe, all you need is this one-line batch file.

C:\Program Files (x86)\7-Zip\7z.exe a archive.zip Dissertation.doc *.java .\Images

Save that as a file called "archive.bat" in the directory containing the files to back up or download the heres-one-I-made-earlier below, and in the next step we'll customise it to your requirements.
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