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I am into automated tasks for laborious jobs like backing up and/or copying and pasting raw data and folders. I have a bunch of different folders I like to backup besides doing my weekly Acronis image. Is there a program that will do this WITHOUT creating a proprietary file/folder or huge zip file? I just want the folders backed up to my external on a regular basis AS IS, no change etc.. whatsoever. Acronis just wants to put them in a tib or zip file and even with no compression it takes longer to do a series of just folder than a whole image. Norton backup just does some weird proprietary file system and creates a virtual drive to look at stuff. I want none of that.

I could probably take the time to make a batch file but I don't know enough about the syntax to do it.

Thanks for any help!

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xcopy c:\source d:\destination /c/h/e/f/r/s/v/k/y

should do it in a batch file.

Good idea, but, rather than taking the time to make a batch file I found Genie Timeline Free Edition. I love Genie-Soft, well they are called Genie9 now. Makes an uncompressed raw backup of whatever file or folder you select. Still puts a virtual drive in "My Computer" but.... It does incremental backups on whatever schedule you want and sends you an email with all details when it's done. Footprint is next to nothing as it stays loaded for scheduling and updates and no real noticeable degradation in responsiveness while running. Pretty damn cool if you ask me! http://www.genie9.com/free_products/free_timeline.aspx

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xcopy c:\source d:\destination /c/h/e/f/r/s/v/k/y

should do it in a batch file.

Hi,

OK, I decided to try my hand at starting to assemble a batch file. I started by testing the syntax you gave me. I looked up what exactly I had to type, quotes and switches etc...

I did this to test it and got this error:

C:\Windows\system32>XCOPY "C:\Users\(username removed)\My Pictures" "K:\Important file backups" /E /C /R /I /K /Y

File not found - My Pictures

0 File(s) copied

I am probably doing something simply wrong but can't get it to work.

Any help?

Thanks,

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Yea, don't use "quotes" on the path names, and do a "dir/x" to get the 9.3 folder names.

So if it's C:\Program Files, in the batch file you would use C:\PROGRA~1 also use all the switches.... /c/h/e/f/r/s/v/k/y exactly like that.

If I wanted to copy my whole C: program files to D: backup folder without it failing with errors, asking to overwrite and skipping in-use files that it could not copy, i would use

xcopy c:\progra~1 d:\backup /c/h/e/f/r/s/v/k/y

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Yea, don't use "quotes" on the path names, and do a "dir/x" to get the 9.3 folder names.

So if it's C:\Program Files, in the batch file you would use C:\PROGRA~1 also use all the switches.... /c/h/e/f/r/s/v/k/y exactly like that.

If I wanted to copy my whole C: program files to D: backup folder without it failing with errors, asking to overwrite and skipping in-use files that it could not copy, i would use

xcopy c:\progra~1 d:\backup /c/h/e/f/r/s/v/k/y

I also noticed that SuperCopier2 lets you make scripts for it do basicaly do what I want and it seems to be much faster, using multiple threads.

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Yea, don't use "quotes" on the path names, and do a "dir/x" to get the 9.3 folder names. So if it's C:\Program Files, in the batch file you would use C:\PROGRA~1 also use all the switches.... /c/h/e/f/r/s/v/k/y exactly like that. If I wanted to copy my whole C: program files to D: backup folder without it failing with errors, asking to overwrite and skipping in-use files that it could not copy, i would use xcopy c:\progra~1 d:\backup /c/h/e/f/r/s/v/k/y

What is this, the 1990's? There's no reason to use 8.3. "quotes" work fine for paths with spaces.

The reason "My Pictures" was not found was because in windows 7 the directory is just called "Pictures".

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If you are interested in something similar to the xcopy solution proposed above, I recommend trying DeltaCopy (which is just a nice rsync GUI and installer for Windows). It will let you do scheduling, simply backup the files and folders -- no proprietary format, and, most importantly, does incremental backups.

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