Any way to Schedule files to be copied at a later time?

[Kelemvor]

Howdy,

I have a need to copy some files from a network drive to my computer at a certain time of the day. I normally can't do it in the morning because my computer is cranking away doing some Video Encoding that I don't want to interrupt. So I want to be able to say that at 2:00 (or whatever) it will go copy these files down.

Is there some way to do this?
Can I maybe make a DOS Batch file and somehow stick that in Task Scheduler and set it to go off at a certain time?
Any other way to do this?

This is Windows XP...

Thanks.

 

[bruceb]

Try this program:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/AutoMate.shtml

It is supposed to be fully functional for the first 30 days .. don't know what

happens after that (apps you built with it may still work) ... License is $39.95

Not too bad if it will do what you want to do

 

[SeTeS]

Your proposed batch file + task scheduler solution should work fine.

If you're looking for something a bit more elegant, try allway sync. It's free and does quite a bit of fancy syncs, copies, etc. It works w/ Task Scheduler but it will also watch for insertion of removable devices to initiate a sync. Pretty cool to have a few folders that will auto sync to a flash drive.

 

[Kelemvor]

I just want to use this to copy files from my PVR computer up to my main computer so I can edit them and re-encode them and such. I want it to run when no programs are scheduled to record which is normally in the middle of the day when I'm at work. I'll try that task scheduler thing and see what happens.

 

[Slowlearner]

Highly recommend Karen's Replicator available from www.karenware.com . Works best with folders rather than files. Can do an incremental or full replication - works with all Windows versions