Automatic backup-to-server on Windows XP
March 7, 2005 9:19 AM Subscribe
I'm looking for a way to automatically back-up specified directories to a web server under Windows XP.
I recently went through a accidentally-fried-motherboard scare, and it kinda freaked me out that I didn't have backups of my important stuff. So I'm looking for a simple utility to upload stuff to a server on a weekly basis. A set-it-up-once-and-forget-it's-running kind of thing.
I recently went through a accidentally-fried-motherboard scare, and it kinda freaked me out that I didn't have backups of my important stuff. So I'm looking for a simple utility to upload stuff to a server on a weekly basis. A set-it-up-once-and-forget-it's-running kind of thing.
Response by poster: FTP. I'll take a look at scheduled tasks, and I haven't used a batch file since like 1997, so this'll be fun.
posted by billybunny at 4:21 PM on March 7, 2005
posted by billybunny at 4:21 PM on March 7, 2005
If you have ssh access to the server, you should consider using rsync to copy the files. Rsync will only copy files that have changed since the last backup, so you can run the backup job more frequently. cwRsync is a Windows version. You'll still need to write batch files and schedule them to run as tasks. This page has some shell scripts for automated backups under Linux, but they can be adapted for use under Windows, and show how to do several of the things you're likely to want, such as incremental backups and excluding specific file types.
posted by yarmond at 10:29 PM on March 7, 2005
posted by yarmond at 10:29 PM on March 7, 2005
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posted by pmbuko at 10:19 AM on March 7, 2005