Newbie question - Is there a script/command to do a backup of a di

Newbie question - Is there a script/command to do an automatic backup of a
disk to another disk? Or a set of folders on a disk to another disk?

Sorry, but I've looked around and there doesn't seem to be a quick
explanation/script avaiable for what would seem to be an easy, but important
task.
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dob

If by "backup" you mean a simple copy, sure.

Something like

copy-item c:\mystuff d:\mystuff -recurse

should do.

If you want "automatic" you'll need a scheduler. I understand that
Powershell 2.0 will have scheduling features, but until then you could use
the task scheduler (the "AT" command.). example:

AT 0:00 "powershell c:\mybackup.ps1"

where the ps1 file contains the copy-item command.

If that's not what you are looking for, please explain and I'll try again.

- Leo


"dob" wrote:

Not sure about 2.0 having any time scheduling capabilities. It wouldn't
necessarily make sense either.

Perhaps you are referring to "eventing"?

Marco

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"dob" <dob@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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You can also use older commands that you may have used with cmd.exe, such as
xcopy etc.

xcopy /?

"If it works, don't ...... "

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Jon

Thanks, that seems to be what I needed! - simple copy is what I wanted
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dob


"Leo Tohill" wrote: