Dom
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Anyone know of any good backup software that will just backup a directory/number of files (if they have been changed) every time windows shuts down?
been looking around and cant find anything - dont really want a program that will compress it into its own format etc, just copy the files to a different drive,
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Aaron
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not sure about everytime windows shuts down...but Microsoft have made a power toy for sync'ing two folders contents called SyncToy
Google "SyncToy", its free
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Bart
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we use http://www.handybackup.com which is pretty good.
ITs simple to use, you can backup over network to any device and its also pretty cheap and inc free updates
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Steve
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You could create a batch file that has the command
xcopy c:\blah c:\backup
shutdown -s -t 01
Then create a shortcut on the desktop to it or sumthing and call it shutdown computer, then use that tp shutdown the PC instead of normal start>shutdown
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
You could create a batch file that has the command
xcopy c:\blah c:\backup
shutdown -s -t 01
Then create a shortcut on the desktop to it or sumthing and call it shutdown computer, then use that tp shutdown the PC instead of normal start>shutdown
that will do nicely mate never thought of using batch files lol does the xcopy command overwrite files if the same ones are found?
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Steve
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might do, just go into dos type xcopy /? and it'l give you a list of extensions to use with it
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Dom
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cheers fella
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James_DT
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xcopy /D:month-date-year will copy all files created/modified after the date specified. Otherwise, xcopy just overwrites files unless you tell it not to.
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Russ
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
You could create a batch file that has the command
xcopy c:\blah c:\backup
shutdown -s -t 01
Then create a shortcut on the desktop to it or sumthing and call it shutdown computer, then use that tp shutdown the PC instead of normal start>shutdown
would i be able to exec a btch file on somebody elses pc on my network? if so do you know cmd :x
namely -
shutdown -s -t 01
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Steve
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you can use shutdown to remotely shut down another windows xp/2000 machine provided there are no blocked ports etc, the command is
shutdown -s -m \\computername
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