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Jan Rifkinson [JR] wrote:
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Allie>> I do daily backups of my mailbases just to be sure. It's done
Allie>> using a WinRAR command line based batch file that does a
Allie>> archive synchronisation and updating with my mailbase
JR> How exactly do you do this, Allie?
I use the system scheduler to run the .cmd file daily.
The batch file is a text file containing the following:
======Start cmd file=====>
@Echo off
Echo ************************************************
Echo * !! Updating Backup Archive of TB-Mail !! *
Echo * (\\alliem\l\tbbackup\tb-mail.rar) *
Echo ************************************************
Path C:\Software\winrar
winrar a -u -as \\Alliem\L\TBBackup\TB-Mail.rar C:\Mail
exit
======/end cmd file======|
I backup to my server which has a nice Seagate Cheetah as its main
drive.
C:\Mail is my working mail directory. This should be
"C:\Program Files\The Bat!\Mail" for most.
The path before that defines the name and location of the rar archive
you're backing up to. If one isn't there, it will just create one and
do a full backup on the first go. After that, it simply analyses the
archive and update only the changed files. This saves time and
overhead.
Use the winrar command switches as shown.
a - create archive
u - update an existing archive
as - synchronise an existing archive with a target source
directory/file.
The Echo part just suppresses all the stuff that will normally fill
the console window when the cmd script is running and the announcement
in the asterisk is put in it's place. Makes for a cleaner visual if I
happen to be awake when it starts running.
I do the same for the registry. I do it separately but you could do it
all in one swoop (I guess I will shortly integrate the two. I don't
know why I separated them in the first place). My TB! registry backup
goes like this:
@Echo Off
Path=C:\Windows
del \\Alliem\L\TBBackup\tbreg.reg
regedit /e "\\Alliem\L\TBBackup\tbreg.reg" hkey_current_user\software\rit
exit
You could use WinRAR and the system scheduler to do unattended backups
of many files and folders on your system. No need for 3rd party
software. :-)
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-=Allie C Martin=-
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