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Old 01-09-2004, 22:26   #9
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Re: Advice on data back-ups please
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Originally Posted by andygrif
Hello. I'm very bored of trying to get XP's built-in back-up to work how I want it to (which is not complex). So does anyone have any advice they can share as to a good all round, simple, back-up utility.

Preferably freeware.

I don't run passwords on my PCs (Windows back-up doesn't like me for that)

I would like to plonk a CD-R in my 'server' (I use quotes, 'cos it's just an old PC with a big second hard drive in that is shared with other PCs in the workgroup)

I only want a single folder with an important database and its associated files in it backed-up, and want to get it running in scheduled tasks once a month.

Any help you can give will be gratefully rep'd.
What about a batch file with a few lines of Xcopy in it? Xcopy is very flexible; you can do subdirectories and if you want to exclude certain files then there is a /E flag to do this. I haven't tried it, but I assume that you could run the batch file at set intervals using the XP task scheduler.
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