beanzontoast
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Does anyone know of a freeware solution that can detect when a file has been changed on my computer and automatically back it up to an external drive?
dave r said:Have you thought about backing up on the Internet? I have a free account with Spideroak https://spideroak.com/ with a 2gig limit, i also back up manually to an external hard drive.
iirc the problem with robocopy is that it's a synchronisation tool not a backup tool - it creates a mirror. So if you want to recover a broken file you're up the swanee because the mirror also contains the same broken version of the file.terryd said:robocopy is good comes with a gui to help you create a batch file if needed
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.11.utilityspotlight.aspx
chuck in the startup folder or just double click now and again
If you want some thing to monitor files in real time not sure though
nigelnorris said:iirc the problem with robocopy is that it's a synchronisation tool not a backup tool - it creates a mirror. So if you want to recover a broken file you're up the swanee because the mirror also contains the same broken version of the file.
E:
cd NEWSERVER-BACKUPSrobocopy
rmdir /Q /S r7_weekly4
rename r7_weekly3 r7_weekly4
rename r7_weekly2 r7_weekly3
rename r7_weekly r7_weekly2
mkdir r7_weekly
robocopy "E:NEWSERVER-BACKUPSR7" "E:NEWSERVER-BACKUPSrobocopyr7_weekly" /NP /R:10 /W:30 /E /V /log:"C:r7_weekly_backup.log"
beanzontoast said:Internet backups are something I've thought about from time to time, but I'm old fashioned about data: like to have it in my possession where I know it is safe(r). I'm looking at replacing my external hard drive right now which is part of the reason I started the thread.
BTW Dave - how you getting on with that new base unit of yours?