back up script help please

[neon]

Welcome back guys,

 

Just wondering if someone can help me out, I am currently using a xcopy script as a way to back up teachers laptops, this works well however there is one problem, when a teacher deletes a file the file stays in the back up folder? Is there any way of cloning a folder exactly as it appears at c:/documents and settings\user\desktop? Thanks for any help, hope everyone is ok and glad to back

[sted]

robocopy d:\users "\\nas01\backup\Curric\Data\Users\mon" /copyall /mir /r:2 /w:5

 

should do the trick

[OutToLunch]

Might be a silly observation, but isn't it better it stays there unless you're doing multiple copies by week etc - otherwise when they come and say "I deleted X from my laptop last week, can you get it back?" it will have been nuked by the mirroring process...

[kili]

Synchtoy from Microsoft. Use it to schedule backups or run manually it has sync functions I use it for my home backup. One of the options allows for folders or files deleted on the source folder to be auto deleted on the destination ( backup) when synchtoy is run.

 

check it out here

Edited September 3, 2010 by kili

[neon]

hey guys, cheers for the comments, I like the look of robocopy have installed it and written the .bat file however it will not run because it doesnt like c:\documents and settings in the path? is there any way round this?

 

thanks again

[sister_annex]

try putting quotes around the file path, spaces can cause an issue

 

HTH

[Otaruihc]

Anyone have the script that copies folders and fles that retain the original file creation date across drives? The folders keep copying with the current date and I want to retain the original file creation date.

[SYNACK]

you could use robocopy with the /e switch

Robocopy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[chrbb]

My backup script copies everything across to the server, but I've left mine not to delete anything. The working documents are on the staff laptop with copies on the server, I then leave it up to the teacher to decide if they want to delete folders on the server, there's always a chance when they move yeargroups to teach back in the year they were in 2 years ago they want their old stuff back!

[Otaruihc]

The e switch doesn't work either. I forgot to mention I am using the older version (not XP026 as I am still running XP). From all I read the earlier version of RoboCopy will not keep filestamps when going across drives. My wife has a Windows 7 laptop with the latest version of RoboCopy so I guess I'll have to hook up my drives via a USB and copy them that way.

[sted]

would copying rococopy from a win7 pc to a winxp work?

[Arthur]

would copying robocopy from a win7 pc to a winxp work?

No. It doesn't work on XP.

[Otaruihc]

If the above question was meant for me I think you misunderstood. What I meant is hook up the two drives (the drive with the data and the primary boot disk) both as slaves to the Windows 7 laptop and use RoboCopy off the Win 7 platform. To copy the data to the primary hard drive (loaded with the Win XP platform) and then reinstall that drive in the machine.

 

That should work wouldn’t it?

[Arthur]

If the above question was meant for me I think you misunderstood.

It wasn't, which is why I quoted Sted.

 

That should work wouldn't it?

This will work perfectly fine. It just depends on Neon having access to computer running Windows 7 or 2008 R2. Another alternative would be to copy the data over the network. This can be done locally or remotely using PSExec. e.g.

 

psexec -u username -p password -c -f robocopy.exe \\Source\Users$ \\Destination\Backup$\Users /COPYALL /MIR /R:1 /W:3 /NP