Can't Start New Backup of Just My Documents

[Highlander]

I had previously begun a full system backup and several of those disks were
damaged. I would like to now just backup documents, pictures, music and
e-mails. The backup utility will only give me two choices. 1) a full system
backup or 2) a backup of the files mentioned above since the previous backup.

How do I just get a complete backup of my documents, pictures, etc?

 

[Bob]

xcopy [source] *.jpg [destination]
xcopy [source] *.doc [destination]
xcopy [source] *.wma [destination]

 

[Highlander]

xcopy [source] *.jpg [destination]
xcopy [source] *.doc [destination]
xcopy [source] *.wma [destination]

I had previously begun a full system backup and several of those disks were
damaged. I would like to now just backup documents, pictures, music and
e-mails. The backup utility will only give me two choices. 1) a full
system
backup or 2) a backup of the files mentioned above since the previous
backup.

How do I just get a complete backup of my documents, pictures, etc?

Bob,

Thanks for the reply. I need some further help though as I don't have the
technical background to understand how to do what you wrote.

Thanks

 

[Bob]

Ok, here's an example. Create the folder you want to copy the files to or
use an existing folder.
Open a command prompt. Type cd\Users\Highlander\Pictures. Press Enter. Now
you are at the "source". Type xcopy *.jpg [destination]. The [destination]
would be the folder you want to copy the files to. For example,
c:\Users\Highlander\desktop\Pictures Backup.

You could combine all the commands in a Notepad document. Save it to your
desktop as whatever.bat (using all files NOT txt). Then you could run it
simply by clicking on the file.

xcopy [source] *.jpg [destination]
xcopy [source] *.doc [destination]
xcopy [source] *.wma [destination]

Alternately, you could use Windows Explorer to navigate to the folder that
contains the files you wants to copy/backup, select all the files and copy
them to the backup folder.

xcopy [source] *.jpg [destination]
xcopy [source] *.doc [destination]
xcopy [source] *.wma [destination]

I had previously begun a full system backup and several of those disks
were
damaged. I would like to now just backup documents, pictures, music
and
e-mails. The backup utility will only give me two choices. 1) a full
system
backup or 2) a backup of the files mentioned above since the previous
backup.

How do I just get a complete backup of my documents, pictures, etc?

Bob,

Thanks for the reply. I need some further help though as I don't have the
technical background to understand how to do what you wrote.

Thanks

 

[SG]

Highlander,

Here is a FREE little app that works very well and I do believe it is just
what you are looking for. Also if you choose you don't even have to install
it, simply create a folder, copy a few needed files that the website
describes and run the executable from a shortcut you create.
http://www.freebyte.com/fbbackup/

Freebyte Backup is a freeware backup program for Windows. It allows one to
easily copy (and filter) a large number of files and directories from
various sources into one backup directory. It is possible to backup all
files found in the specified set of input directories, or to have only
certain file types copied. Files can be filtered according to
file-extensions. E.g. you can specify that you want to backup all .doc,
..rtf, .jpg, .bmp files, but none of the .exe, .dll and .txt files. You can
also very easily define new file extensions inside the filter.

--
All the best,
SG

xcopy [source] *.jpg [destination]
xcopy [source] *.doc [destination]
xcopy [source] *.wma [destination]

I had previously begun a full system backup and several of those disks
were
damaged. I would like to now just backup documents, pictures, music
and
e-mails. The backup utility will only give me two choices. 1) a full
system
backup or 2) a backup of the files mentioned above since the previous
backup.

How do I just get a complete backup of my documents, pictures, etc?

Bob,

Thanks for the reply. I need some further help though as I don't have the
technical background to understand how to do what you wrote.

Thanks

 

[Highlander]

Thanks guys. I appreciate the help.

Highlander,

Here is a FREE little app that works very well and I do believe it is just
what you are looking for. Also if you choose you don't even have to install
it, simply create a folder, copy a few needed files that the website
describes and run the executable from a shortcut you create.
http://www.freebyte.com/fbbackup/

Freebyte Backup is a freeware backup program for Windows. It allows one to
easily copy (and filter) a large number of files and directories from
various sources into one backup directory. It is possible to backup all
files found in the specified set of input directories, or to have only
certain file types copied. Files can be filtered according to
file-extensions. E.g. you can specify that you want to backup all .doc,
..rtf, .jpg, .bmp files, but none of the .exe, .dll and .txt files. You can
also very easily define new file extensions inside the filter.

--
All the best,
SG

xcopy [source] *.jpg [destination]
xcopy [source] *.doc [destination]
xcopy [source] *.wma [destination]


I had previously begun a full system backup and several of those disks
were
damaged. I would like to now just backup documents, pictures, music
and
e-mails. The backup utility will only give me two choices. 1) a full
system
backup or 2) a backup of the files mentioned above since the previous
backup.

How do I just get a complete backup of my documents, pictures, etc?

Bob,

Thanks for the reply. I need some further help though as I don't have the
technical background to understand how to do what you wrote.

Thanks