Backup with XCOPY

richardj · Post by **richardj** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:17 pm

Here I'm always looking for a decent backup program & I found this on a tech site to use the built in Windows XCOPY to do it.

In a text file place this info: xcopy C: D:Backup /e/r/i/c/k/y/h/d

C: means I'm copying all of the C partition

D:Backup is my destination

For the first backup take the /d off of the string--this tells it to copy files dated newer then whats now in the backup, or in other words it copys just changed files.

You can find out what all those other parameters are by typing in a cmd prompt

xcopy /?

ANYWAy. Close this text file & rename it to Backup.bat & yer done.

This should also be able to be run from the task scheduler-I haven't tried it yet.

Its faster then hell.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:00 pm

hmm never knew xcopy had the ability to only backup new files. Good to know. My backup solution uses rsync which does that as well.

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richardj · Post by **richardj** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:10 am

rsync

I don't know what would happen tho on a reinstall.

In other words--say XP craps out--could I then just change the source & destination parameters around & then it would copy back over the existing XP (on C:) and restore everything?

I've tried & have Acronis 9 home now & had to reinstall it twice already--it 'looses' the serial number.

I had Acronis 8 Windows Server Addition & once a week I'd get the message--'can't find any hard drives"

When it works it works great----but can't depend on it.

The nice thing about Acronis is as it boots you can click F11 & it takes you to the recovery program so if Win won't boot you're saved.

But it lost it self 4 days ago & I didn't know it so when I had to run the recovery today--I lost all my mail & stuff from the last 4 days.

I haven't found a decent commercial backup program yet.

Plus now I have "Active Sync" an MS program--I think backups could be made with that too----when I have time.

RED--ARE YOU GETING MY EMAILS OR NOT??

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:35 am

Well rsync and xcopy are file based backups. If your OS corrupts you need to reimage. But file based backups will ensure your data is backed up.

My backup server backs up all my data, my OS is imaged so if that corrupts I restore the image, and my data will already be safe since its on the D drive. If my D drive gets corrupt or something, then I can restore it.

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