Wake pc up and login to backup hard drive?

[Bradlys]

Hi guys,

 

Just wondering if any of you guys had experience with backing up a mapped network drive at lets say 2am?

 

I would like my machine to wake itself up (It's always put to sleep) Login and then do a backup onto an external USB hard drive.

 

http://puu.sh/6TdLb.png

[network41]

WOl then run scheduled task

[Bradlys]

WOl then run scheduled task

 

How exactly would I format the scheduled task? Can you be a bit more specific please

[tekins]

I think I'd start a robocopy or similar before I went home.

[Bradlys]

Tbh, I'm having issues already haha, Trying to activate WoWLan and it needs me to change the registry.. eeek

 

Quiz time!

 

start backup [-backupTarget:{ | }] [-include:] [-nonRecurseInclude:] [-exclude:] [-nonRecurseExclude:] [-allCritical] [-systemState] [-noVerify] [-user:] [-password:] [-noInheritAcl] [-vssFull | -vssCopy] [-quiet]

 

These are arguments for the schedule.

 

http://puu.sh/6Tfbw.png

 

In theory it would be like:

 

So I have it as:

 

start backup -backupTarget: F:\Operations -include: Y:\ -user: -password: -noInheritAcl -vssCopy -quiet

 

Is there anyway to make it so that it automatically overrides previous files

Edited February 12, 2014 by Bradlys

[jbailey]

Why can you not backup the source of the network drive?

[mjs_mjs]

how about a batch file containing code like:

xcopy C:\VM's* E:\Backup\%date:~6,4%-%date:~3,2%-%date:~0,2%\VM's\* /Y /Q /S /D:05-01-2013

 

This copies all data from one folder to the other, but only those files modified post the date at the end, it makes a dated file on the destination drive.

 

You can then run the batch file from a scheduled task. You can look up the options for xcopy to make it overwrite ect.

 

in win 7> control panel > task scheduler > create task > (conditions tab) - there's an option to wake the computer to do this task...