Good advise, but you can save yourself $25 with a little simple scripting.
On Windoes make a batch file (a text file with a .bat extension) with something like this in it:
xcopy d:\*.* e: /s /d
Then setup the command scheduler to run that at whatever interval you like.
Great tip, Matt! I should've thought of it. And now, due to a
fatal flaw in Argentum Backup (
see original post), I'm using a similar batch file:
set mydate=%date:~10%-%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%
set mytime=%time:~0,2%-%time:~3,2%
xcopy i: j: /d /s /c /f /y > f:\z_backup\log\I-J_%mydate%_%mytime%.log
set mydate=%date:~10%-%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2% | captures the date for use in my log filename
set mytime=%time:~0,2%-%time:~3,2% | captures the time for use in my log filename
i: | my source drive
j: | my destination drive
/d | copies any new or updated files from source to destination
/s | copies all subdirectories and files
/c | continues copying through errors (not positive I want to do this, yet)
/f | displays full source and destination paths/filenames I capture in the log
/y | suppress prompting to confirm an overwrite of an existing destination file
> | sends the results of the operations to a log file
f:\z_backup\log\i-j_%mydate%_%mytime%.log | path and filename of the log file
This option will only copy new or updates files from source to destination, and does not deletions at all.
Can't use SyncToy or Robocopy (referenced in another thread) since I'm on Win2K and have no desire to change.