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| Thread ID: 96212 | 2009-01-02 21:18:00 | Good backup program? | kettles (14332) | Press F1 |
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| 734527 | 2009-01-02 21:18:00 | I'm using Vista Home Premium and the built in backup is stupid. I just want a reliable program which I can use to copy selected folders to my external HDD, and update them from time to time. What do you guys use? | kettles (14332) | ||
| 734528 | 2009-01-02 21:30:00 | MS synctoy works great and is free, available to download from there site | gary67 (56) | ||
| 734529 | 2009-01-02 21:35:00 | x2 for Synctoy (www.microsoft.com) with Graphical Instructions (www.pchell.com) on how to use ( Warning) the site is quite slow to load sometimes - lots of graphics) | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 734530 | 2009-01-02 21:48:00 | A batch file :p I find this excellent for backing up my firefox profile and outlook data file each day :) Create this file in notepad called 'SyncOneWay.bat'... @echo off echo Scanning for and Syncing altered files in echo %1 and copying them to %2 XCOPY "%1" "%2" /D /I /E %3 pause And this one (call it whatever you like) @echo off title Syncing F:\Files to M:\SyncWithInternalDrive\Files SYNCONEWAY "F:\Files" "M:\SyncWithInternalDrive\Files" pause Where F:\Files is the source and M:\SyncWithInternalDrive\Files is the backup destination Then put both files in the same folder and run the one with your choice of name :) HTH |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 734531 | 2009-01-02 22:31:00 | SyncToy is good. SyncBack is even better. :thumbs: There's an excellent free version here (www.2brightsparks.com). |
Vallis (8886) | ||
| 734532 | 2009-01-02 22:40:00 | SyncToy is good. SyncBack is even better. :thumbs: There's an excellent free version here (www.2brightsparks.com). SyncBack works atreat and is easy to use. |
Colpol (444) | ||
| 734533 | 2009-01-03 15:54:00 | MS synctoy works great and is free, available to download from there site I tried using Sync toy A while back. It produced something like 75 errors backing up a partition of about 1GB, consistently, by its own count, so I stopped using it. Maybe I was doing something wrong?:confused: |
Vince (406) | ||
| 734534 | 2009-01-03 19:50:00 | Cobian - recommended by other PF1ers, here: www.snapfiles.com |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 734535 | 2009-01-03 20:23:00 | A batch file :p I find this excellent for backing up my firefox profile and outlook data file each day :) Create this file in notepad called 'SyncOneWay.bat'... @echo off echo Scanning for and Syncing altered files in echo %1 and copying them to %2 XCOPY "%1" "%2" /D /I /E %3 pause And this one (call it whatever you like) @echo off title Syncing F:\Files to M:\SyncWithInternalDrive\Files SYNCONEWAY "F:\Files" "M:\SyncWithInternalDrive\Files" pause Where F:\Files is the source and M:\SyncWithInternalDrive\Files is the backup destination Then put both files in the same folder and run the one with your choice of name :) HTH Good skills ! That looks great I am an old Dos head and used to use batch files all the time. Not such clever one as yours though ! I have been writing a few scripts these days, but find it hard to get to grisp with. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 734536 | 2009-01-04 08:51:00 | SyncToy is good, or you can try Toucan, which also comes in a portable version | Blam (54) | ||
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