Vista - How to turn off Backup Wizard

I use various file extensions for my documents, (based on customer names, i.e
last name Williams, extension "*.wil" ) and therefore the basic file
extensions of *.doc or *.docx are the only files that will be backed up. How
can I turn off the Backup Wizard and chose only the files I want to back up?
my backup media is a ZIP 750 drive using 250 and 750 disks. I use these
because I archive my customers files for 5 to 6 years before deletion and it
is imperative that these files be saved with the customer's name.

Copy <drive>\:<folder_path>\*.wil <zipdrive_letter>:\<backup_folder>

eg: Copy C:\clients\*wil F:\Backups\Williams

You can make a batch file out of it if you want to automate the task some.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"ptnana" <ptnana@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3F01C843-BA35-4563-B1BA-A21EEA8FD02F@microsoft.com...
>I use various file extensions for my documents, (based on customer names,
>i.e
> last name Williams, extension "*.wil" ) and therefore the basic file
> extensions of *.doc or *.docx are the only files that will be backed up.
> How
> can I turn off the Backup Wizard and chose only the files I want to back
> up?
> my backup media is a ZIP 750 drive using 250 and 750 disks. I use these
> because I archive my customers files for 5 to 6 years before deletion and
> it
> is imperative that these files be saved with the customer's name.

Thanks for the information. However, I am a little confused. are you saying
that I would back up all files for one client to individual folders? or
could it look like this:

copy d:\documents\*.* F:\backups

In other words, all files in the documents folder to one backup folder on
the zip drive. Or would this also copy folders within the document folder?

Annette



"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Copy <drive>\:<folder_path>\*.wil <zipdrive_letter>:\<backup_folder>
>
> eg: Copy C:\clients\*wil F:\Backups\Williams
>
> You can make a batch file out of it if you want to automate the task some.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "ptnana" <ptnana@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3F01C843-BA35-4563-B1BA-A21EEA8FD02F@microsoft.com...
> >I use various file extensions for my documents, (based on customer names,
> >i.e
> > last name Williams, extension "*.wil" ) and therefore the basic file
> > extensions of *.doc or *.docx are the only files that will be backed up.
> > How
> > can I turn off the Backup Wizard and chose only the files I want to back
> > up?
> > my backup media is a ZIP 750 drive using 250 and 750 disks. I use these
> > because I archive my customers files for 5 to 6 years before deletion and
> > it
> > is imperative that these files be saved with the customer's name.
>
>

=?Utf-8?B?cHRuYW5h?= <ptnana@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:47D68246-FDD2-4588-A719-40A11F26FE89@microsoft.com:

> Thanks for the information. However, I am a little confused. are
> you saying that I would back up all files for one client to
> individual folders? or could it look like this:
>
> copy d:\documents\*.* F:\backups
>
> In other words, all files in the documents folder to one backup
> folder on the zip drive. Or would this also copy folders within
> the document folder?
>
> Annette
>
>
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Copy <drive>\:<folder_path>\*.wil
>> <zipdrive_letter>:\<backup_folder>
>>
>> eg: Copy C:\clients\*wil F:\Backups\Williams
>>
>> You can make a batch file out of it if you want to automate the
>> task some.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>
>> "ptnana" <ptnana@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:3F01C843-BA35-4563-B1BA-A21EEA8FD02F@microsoft.com...
>> >I use various file extensions for my documents, (based on
>> >customer names, i.e
>> > last name Williams, extension "*.wil" ) and therefore the basic
>> > file extensions of *.doc or *.docx are the only files that will
>> > be backed up. How
>> > can I turn off the Backup Wizard and chose only the files I
>> > want to back up?
>> > my backup media is a ZIP 750 drive using 250 and 750 disks. I
>> > use these because I archive my customers files for 5 to 6 years
>> > before deletion and it
>> > is imperative that these files be saved with the customer's
>> > name.
>>
>>
>


There are many backup utilities on the web you can try (freeware,
shareware or licensed) that do a far better job then Windows backup.
Everyone here will have an opinion on one or another, the best thing
you can do is try them all until you find one that meets your needs
and you are comfortable with.

Heres a good starting point

http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0....ackup&tag=srch

I personally use a program called allway sync

http://allwaysync.com/?a=1

I have over 7 thousand family photos I sync nightly to an external
Hard Drive and it does a fantastic job. I like syncing photos rather
then compressing them as there isn't much to gain by compressing
jpg's and you dont have to open backup files to search for a single
file.

I also noticed Winzip ver.11 will also do backup jobs on a schedual
you create. (I haven't tried it yet)

Both of these and most any other back up utilities will back up to a
zip drive.

Last but not least I would strongly recommend you change your file
naming techniques to a more standard format.

example (just a few)

Williams_001.*
Wil - accounts payable.*
Williams labor reports.*
name_date.*
date_name_account number.*
or if you need 8.3 file naming
wil-????.*
????_wil.*

* is what ever 3 letter extension the program you use to create the
file will assign.

as far as the topic
type backup in the search window in START, you can turn off windows
backup with BACKUP STATUS AND CONFIGURATION

Hope this helps
Dave