Hi everyone

i am trying to write a script to backup my data to an
iomega zip drive (250mb. How do i go about doing it? Has
anyone got an example i can start working from?

thanks again

Re: help with script - backups by jhardy

jhardy
Wed Aug 20 21:56:42 CDT 2003

thanks Kevin - yes, it is for personal data only.

Are you able to send me an example please?

I am new to this.

thanks again


>-----Original Message-----
>this is for backing up personal data, not server files -
correct?
>
>I have a customer backing up a small application to a zip
drive - I just
>wrote a simple DOS batch (.bat) script to use XCOPY to
copy the entire
>directory to the zip drive, and a 2nd batch file to
restore the files from a
>zip drive back to the hard drive.
>
>-kw
>
>"jhardy" <jhardy012003@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
>news:047901c3676d$26854430$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> i am trying to write a script to backup my data to an
>> iomega zip drive (250mb. How do i go about doing it?
Has
>> anyone got an example i can start working from?
>>
>> thanks again
>
>
>.
>

Re: help with script - backups by Mark

Mark
Thu Aug 21 06:11:23 CDT 2003

Here's an example

XCOPY C:\files\*.* Z:\files\*.* /r/i/c/h/k/e/y/d

where c:\ is the source and z:\ is the backup drive.

This would copy all files including subdirectories to the
disk. 2nd time round if you reused the same disk it would
only copy the changed files so the backup would be
quicker, however if you used blank disks each time a full
backup would occur which takes ages.


>-----Original Message-----
>thanks Kevin - yes, it is for personal data only.
>
>Are you able to send me an example please?
>
>I am new to this.
>
>thanks again
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>this is for backing up personal data, not server files -
>correct?
>>
>>I have a customer backing up a small application to a
zip
>drive - I just
>>wrote a simple DOS batch (.bat) script to use XCOPY to
>copy the entire
>>directory to the zip drive, and a 2nd batch file to
>restore the files from a
>>zip drive back to the hard drive.
>>
>>-kw
>>
>>"jhardy" <jhardy012003@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
>>news:047901c3676d$26854430$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>>> Hi everyone
>>>
>>> i am trying to write a script to backup my data to an
>>> iomega zip drive (250mb. How do i go about doing it?
>Has
>>> anyone got an example i can start working from?
>>>
>>> thanks again
>>
>>
>>.
>>
>.
>