That's not a bad idea. Its easy enough to setup a Batch file. But, I've never done any kind of Scheduling under Windows - except Appts occurring in Outlook. Is there a scheduler built into WinXP?
-K- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Covill Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 3:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] - HD Problem & MANY Files Lost... On 11/23/2010 12:12 PM, Kurt Wendt wrote: > I got ALL of my > files and the Folder back! Excellent! You lucked out. On another front, while it would be nice if your employer sprung for a second hard drive, I don't think that's a real excuse for being left high and dry when you lose your working folder. While you'd need a second drive to back up everything, surely your working drive has SOME free space on it - enough to back up your current work at least. You said this machine is always on. Schedule a batch job, to run at midnight each nite, to copy your 'Current Work' folder to a 'Backup' folder (in a different directory). I've used XCOPY in a .BAT file and now use something called SyncBack, while Win 7 includes an XCOPY on steroids called RoboCopy. Doesn't matter, set it up and USE IT! If scheduling it doesn't work, run it before you leave each day. In my view, the main purpose of my backups is for protection against myself - mindless mistaken deletions are much more frequent than disk failures. Dan Covill San Diego [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/289ea162f5642645b5cf64d624c66a1409df1...@us-ny-mail-002.waitex.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
