I can do this easily when I travel as long as I carry a USB drive with me. I only back up things that matter so the back up size is somewhat reasonable and runs at about 75 gigs at the moment. The nice thing is that I can also do this while travelling when other means like online backups are not a good idea due to bandwidth constraints.Ĭlearly this is a most basic backup strategy, but it's actually served me really well over the years. The batch file is then tied to Scheduled Task at 5am every morning with auto wake up of the computer enabled and I occasionally run this manually as well. There might still be other stuff that's open (like an Outlook file) but the key stuff like data and dev related stuff is backed up for sure. Then a bunch of personal data stuff is backed up individually. This file basically backs up all my development folders first - shutting down IIS and SQL Server so files locked by those are released. Robocopy %source%\Users\ricks\AppData\LocalLow %target%\backups\LocalLow /MIR /R:2 /W:5 /MT:8 Robocopy %source%\Users\ricks\AppData\Roaming %target%\backups\Roaming /MIR /R:2 /W:5 /MT:8 Robocopy %source%\Users\ricks\Music %target%\backups\music /MIR /R:2 /W:5 /MT:8 Robocopy %source%\Users\ricks\Documents %target%\backups\documents /MIR /R:2 /W:5 /MT:8 Robocopy %source%\utl %target%\backups\utl /MIR /R:2 /W:5 /MT:8 Robocopy %source%\articles %target%\backups\articles /MIR /R:2 /W:5 /MT:8 Robocopy %source%\saved %target%\backups\saved /MIR /R:2 /W:5 /MT:8 Robocopy %source%\data %target%\backups\data /MIR /R:2 /W:5 /MT:8 Robocopy %source%\westwind %target%\backups\westwind /MIR /R:2 /W:5 /MT:8 Robocopy %source%\wwapps %target%\backups\wwapps /MIR /R:2 /W:5 /MT:8
Robocopy %source%\projects2010 %target%\backups\dev\projects2010 /MIR /R:2 /W:5 /MT:8 The batch file I use, utilizes RoboCopy which ensures speedy and reliable copying of files using recursive directory copying/mirroring: offĮcho Copying from drive %source% to %target% %1 %2 What I have been doing - and still do for daily backups - is to simply do a batch file backup where I map all of my folders that I care about and push them off to a backup drive. Since then I've been a lot more meticulous in either manually backing up or making sure the box does wake up to run the backup in early AM hours. Sure enough on one of those occasions when the backup didn't happen one night a few months ago, my SSD drive froze up and I lost a bunch of data from the previous days' work (I got it back when a couple of days later the SSD miraculously decided to start up again :-). That's actually been working pretty good except that on occasion the machine is off at night or the drive isn't connected and so a backup here and there fails.
To give some context first, before going down this path I've been been doing timed backups that do a backup every night to an attached USB drive that I swap between two physical devices every few days a third drive is backed up about once a month and that one is stored with a friend off site (we basically swap drives). I'd be curious to hear what some of you are using and how you fared. This list is not exhaustive by any means - there are many more services out there but these are the ones I looked at based on recommendations and after poking around a bit before playing.
I spent a bunch of time playing around with various services. To my chagrin though I discovered that while there are plenty of services out there, finding one that provides the right features at the right price was anything but trivial. I figured this process would be fairly straight forward since online backup services have been around for a while now. For the last couple of weeks I finally decided that it's time to get an online backup plan of some sort to do 'live' backups of my data and work environment.
0 kommentar(er)
