Win2000 Backup

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Hi
I'm using windows 2000 as a file server, to store my music and other files
these files are all saved on my D Drive with only the OS on the C Drive, is
there a way of creating a backup, or a backup script, to backup my D drive
onto either my external drive or a CD/DVD?


Thanks
 
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BillB said:
Hi
I'm using windows 2000 as a file server, to store my music and other
files these files are all saved on my D Drive with only the OS on the
C Drive, is there a way of creating a backup, or a backup script, to
backup my D drive onto either my external drive or a CD/DVD?


Thanks
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just run the built in ntbackup and it'll allow you to create a scheduled
file backup to your external drive, not to your CDRW though.

Typically it'll create a file from your selections and call it backup.bkf
you can schedule this to happen whenever etc.

I make a back up of my D: drive to my C: drive and a backup of my C: drive
to my D: drive at weekly intervals. This means that if either drive was to
fail I can recover its data etc. Both of my drives are 400gb with about
300gb free on each.
 
BillB said:
Hi
I'm using windows 2000 as a file server, to store my music and other files
these files are all saved on my D Drive with only the OS on the C Drive, is
there a way of creating a backup, or a backup script, to backup my D drive
onto either my external drive or a CD/DVD?


Thanks
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If your CD/DVD disk is visible as a drive letter then you
could schedule a command such as xcopy.exe to perform
your backup, perhaps like so:
@echo off
xcopy /s /d /y /c "d:\My Music" "F:\My Music\"

I tend to prefer xcopy.exe because a restoration is easier
than with ntbackup.exe and it is independent of the version
of Windows I use.
 
BillB said:
Hi
I'm using windows 2000 as a file server, to store my music and other
files these files are all saved on my D Drive with only the OS on the C
Drive, is there a way of creating a backup, or a backup script, to
backup my D drive onto either my external drive or a CD/DVD?
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.... as a third option, you could take a look at Syncback which was
recommended to me here and which I've found very useful:

http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/
 
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