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