>I try to keep it simple. I use the old XCopy to copy what is important to external hard drives (2 Copies) and keeping it safe.
Don't use xcopy, use robocopy. SERIOUS WARNING: My wife ran a batch file I created for her with an xcopy /S /D for almost a year to backup new/modified files to a removable HDD. By pure accident we discovered that it was failing prematurely with a weird DOS command "out of memory" kind of error (I can't remember the exact error text) due to the path lengths being longer than 255 characters. So it turns out her backups were actually incomplete, but mercifully we didn't suffer any ill effects. Had there been a pause command in the batch file we might have noticed, but there wasn't. So I replaced it with robocopy /MIR and I feel a bit more confident now. Remember Murphy's law, then remember O'Toole's commentary on Murphy's law. Greg
