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Hi there

Our backup drive just crashed and I am looking for a quick fix solution for the time being.

I am looking for preferably freeware software that can do a backup on a daily basis (straight copy of files to an external HDD) for each particlar day, i.e. Monday gets stored in a folder called monday, Tuesday in tuesdays folder etc. Prefereably the software is incremental, i.e. it only backs up files that have changed since the last backup.

This is quite urgent as i would like to get it done by the end of the day (5 hours and counting) :)

Thanks in advance

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overflow34

If this is of interest for the day I could look at expanding the script and actually making sure it will grab all non locked files.

AdamRobinson

Why not use the backup software that comes with 2003 and XP? It works well, and provides for incremental backups if need be. NTBackup.

AndriesKeun

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thanks, totally forgot about batch files, its been a while since i used them.

i used the following in the end: xcopy source destination /d /e /c /h /y which probably works just as well as any straight copy backup program out there. dos is still so powerful, wish we all still used it instead of unstable windows .

overflow34

Good luck with the batch files. I agree on the xcopy. Sorry left off the x.