Backing up your data

[Muse]

My system has been too simple. I put a directory on my clipboard and paste it onto another drive (all subdirectories included). I get asked if I want to replace a file, and I hit "Yes to All" and it proceeds. The thing is, it seems silly to replace/write over files that haven't changed since the last time I backed up. It takes a lot more time, because almost all of the files are the same, and already backed up. I figure there must be an easy way to just copy over files that haven't changed. What do you do?

 

[pontifex]

Acronis True Image

 

[jfall]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/bott_03july14.mspx

 

[mugs]

Robocopy

Free from MS

Does everything you need it to do and more.

Put it in a batch file and make a scheduled task

Done.

 

[Smilin]

ntbackup. can be wizard driven, scheduled, handles system state, does incr/diffs. Works.

Also only known backup that I'm aware of that updates windows\repair automatically each system state backup.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Syncback or Synctoy (both free)

 

[SoulAssassin]

Originally posted by: mugs
Robocopy

Free from MS

Does everything you need it to do and more.

Put it in a batch file and make a scheduled task

Done.

yup

 

[Skeeedunt]

rsync by way of cygwin.

Might switch to SyncToy.