Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions

Hi,

Just wondering if you know any good tool to backup few files and alert us once it's done. I am on Windows 7. Backup will be from local disk to network drive.

Thanks

Sounds like a bat copy script? Windows Explorer if a whole subtree?

For simple backups you can use Win7 own tool "Backup and Restore".

You have to use "Pro" or "Ultimate" versions if you want to backup to a network drive, though.

My external hard drives came with backup sw. They seem to pick their own drives, but they might accept a network destination. You might use zip, so the network traffic is compressed for speed.

Is your backup list dynamic or static?

If you set up something like rsync, then any changes are automatically cloned. rsync windows - Google Search

I personally recommend robo copy, it will keep the files exactly the same including properties and extensions or history of the file.Depends upon what you are trying to achieve.I personally use Robocopy exclusively to back up my DATA files. These get backed up, frequently to my synology

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Cheers!

I use syncback it is a full-featured backup software available in both freeware and shareware versions. It has limitations that the shareware version doesn't, like inability to backup open files, but both versions offer extensive features.

On UNIX I like 'scp -Cp' for uncompressed remote files, but on mounts for compressed backup 'zip -9' or for uncompressed, 'cp -rp'. The MS-DOS commands like COPY and XCOPY seem a bit weaker, amd backup is a bit less flexible, so you might want to install the UNIX-equivalent commands. You can do this many ways, GNU GnuWin32 Toolkits, MinGW, MKS toolkits or the CygWin near complete UNIX in a shell command. There are situations where cpio and tar are more suitable than zip for archiving, like if you want to write output through a ssh pipe.