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Quick question for anyone who uses a computer out there: How many of you backup your files as often as you should?
Now everyone who said they do . . . stop lying.
Second question: How many computers do you work on. I personally find myself bouncing between four: home, office, and two computers at a church I volunteer at. Now my solution for my mobility has been like many, portable hard drive, (or 'jump drive' I call it). Now this has worked great but at it basically becomes my primary drive, but as mobile as I obvioulsy am, do you think I have time to think about backing up my files? Well after physically loosing my first drive, my second drive dying, and loosing my senior project twice because of it I came up with a solution.
Well, just a few minutes and two Notepad text files solved my problems. Now yes, you can buy a fancy MS or other professionally designed program to do this, but why when you don't have to?
Now everyone who said they do . . . stop lying.
Second question: How many computers do you work on. I personally find myself bouncing between four: home, office, and two computers at a church I volunteer at. Now my solution for my mobility has been like many, portable hard drive, (or 'jump drive' I call it). Now this has worked great but at it basically becomes my primary drive, but as mobile as I obvioulsy am, do you think I have time to think about backing up my files? Well after physically loosing my first drive, my second drive dying, and loosing my senior project twice because of it I came up with a solution.
Well, just a few minutes and two Notepad text files solved my problems. Now yes, you can buy a fancy MS or other professionally designed program to do this, but why when you don't have to?
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Signing UpStep 1File 1 - Backup
Write notepad file and copy as shown, make sure you change the C:\ to the location you want your files backed up at.
@echo off
echo -------------------
echo Removable Device Automatic Backup
echo -------------------
xcopy "*" "C:\-insert file path here-" /Y /E /R /D
echo Backup Complete!
Pause.
Save as'Backup.bat'
@echo off
echo -------------------
echo Removable Device Automatic Backup
echo -------------------
xcopy "*" "C:\-insert file path here-" /Y /E /R /D
echo Backup Complete!
Pause.
Save as'Backup.bat'
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Find Robocopy in the (free) Server 2003 ResKit, here:
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