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Michael Eaton threw the gauntlet at me last week wondering why I hadn’t blogged about how I got into software development.  Here are the series of questions he proposed and the answers. How old were you when you started programming? I attempted to program a Timex Sinclair 1000 that I got for Christmas...

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Using RoboCopy for Backups

Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Windows | Posted on 11-04-2008

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For some reason, and I can’t explain it, creating a backup of my laptop has been weighing on my mind.  I haven’t gotten my Windows Home Server up and running yet thus I’m having to do it by hand right now.  Since I am about to take a cross country flight I decided to take a snapshot of things before heading out.  My tool of choice is RoboCopy which is included with Vista. 

So I don’t have to stare at the robocopy help screen again here’s how I backuped up my files to my external Western Digital 400GB My Book drive using RoboCopy.  Mainly I’m posting this for me so I won’t have to stare at the command switches again.

robocopy c:\ f:\DellD820Backup /e /efsraw /copyall /dcopy:t /r:0

 

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