bat backkup

[Brennan]

I cant seem to remember how to make it that only new files and files that have been updated are the only ones that get copied. I did search it but I am probably using the wrong term

[decepticon_eazy_e]

I cant seem to remember how to make it that only new files and files that have been updated are the only ones that get copied. I did search it but I am probably using the wrong term

Perhaps you are talking about using the Archive bit?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_bit

[Brennan]

Perhaps you are talking about using the Archive bit?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_bit

yeah that could be it but how would I implement that into my bat file

[davil]

yeah that could be it but how would I implement that into my bat file

I would use 7-zip (command line version) - that way you can compress the files too. if you need them to be not compressed (for speed) you could just make a non-compressed archive. I can't remember the exact parameters but if this sounds like it would be of any use, let me know and I'll upload my script when I get home (don't have it with me).

However if you want the files to be just files, and don't want to have to un-archive them later,

I would try XXcopy [http://www.xxcopy.com] - this obviously depends if you're using your script to do backups or for some other reason. Wanna give us some more info so we can help more ?

of course there's probably a way to do it with normal copy or xcopy but that would probably be os-dependent and seeing as I don't know whether you're running this on one OS or multiple (or even what your OS is for that matter), I've done a bit of guessing.

Rant over.

[Brennan]

I would use 7-zip (command line version) - that way you can compress the files too. if you need them to be not compressed (for speed) you could just make a non-compressed archive. I can't remember the exact parameters but if this sounds like it would be of any use, let me know and I'll upload my script when I get home (don't have it with me).

However if you want the files to be just files, and don't want to have to un-archive them later,

I would try XXcopy [http://www.xxcopy.com] - this obviously depends if you're using your script to do backups or for some other reason. Wanna give us some more info so we can help more ?

of course there's probably a way to do it with normal copy or xcopy but that would probably be os-dependent and seeing as I don't know whether you're running this on one OS or multiple (or even what your OS is for that matter), I've done a bit of guessing.

Rant over.

yeah that would be helpful for my other backups but for my music I have the web server enabled and I am backing up my music to the web folder this way when I am away with my eee I can listen to my whole collection so I need the music files to not be archived and just normal copies

[VaKo]

Check out Microsoft's SyncToy 2, it will automatically sync your PC with your archive server, laptop or anything else that can be reached with Samba.

http://www.lagesse.org/using-microsoft-syn...2-with-freenas/

[davil]

Check out Microsoft's SyncToy 2, it will automatically sync your PC with your archive server, laptop or anything else that can be reached with Samba.

http://www.lagesse.org/using-microsoft-syn...2-with-freenas/

good point. completely forgot synctoy. i use that to keep backups of websites I do on my USB stick, among other things. Does anyone know if synctoy is scriptable by command line? or would u have to do an autohotkey / autoit job on it ?

[Retro-Starr]

robocopy and xcopy have this option.

vista has both of these and xp only has xcopy.

I don't remember the parameters to do it, but all you have to do is use the --help parameter and read...=]