ROBOCOPY - Create Backup Script

epoc said:

The issue - when I attach my phone to a PC with a USB cable, I see it listed in Windows Explorer along with the hard drives and DVD on the PC. It's labeled "SPH-L710".

Specs - Sprint Cell Phones SPH-L710 | Samsung Cell Phones

Following on Kari's advice about using Mass Storage Mode to be able to give it a drive letter.

There does seem to be quite a few queries about how to enable this, everything I could find requires the phone to be rooted though.

I appreciate the feedback. I won't be ale to root the phone due to a situation outside my control (employer security controls, and they pay the bill). I will just do copy/paste to backup the cell phone for now.

Again, thank you for the replies.

Hi ,
I have been having hard time getting a script working my target is the following ,
1- TO have the script prompt the user for their windows user name
2- Prompt the user for their USB drive letter X:
3- Back up the entire user profile based on the user name input considering some users on XP other on 7
4- Backup will copy PST files
5- Backup C:\Program Files (x86)\Notes\Data

There was a post it does the same task but for some reason it’s not working for me .

Thank you in advance .

Golden said:

...... ROBOCOPY is designed to backup/copy folders to another destination (different disk, external USB drive). The idea is that if the original files are accidently deleted or damaged, you can simply copy the required from the backup location to where you need them.

If you need help setting up a robocopy script to backup your data, then let me know and I'll write one for you.

Regards,
Golden

Hello - I indeed need help with the syntax for running a robocopy script to copy my data in three folders on external HDD (partition G) to the main data folder on the internal SSD data partition D with the parameters below...am attaching the disk management info of the disks/partitions

· Copy all subfolders (there are over 1000 folders) and files
· Keep the original time/date stamps of all folders and files
· Keep original attributes, permissions/access/owner info, etc.
· One of the three folders is about 30GB so please help with the multi-thread parameter set up
· Keep a copy of log file to know that the script ran okay and if any files couldn’t be copied over.



Also, to which location should the script be saved (I have 2 user accounts: an admin and a standard user) in the standard user's Users folder? or in C partition? and I probably need to run as administrator, right?

2) I had used an older version of SyncBack for data backup and just tried FreeFileSync. But with both programs, all the subfolders had newly created dates and did not retain the original folders’ date/time stamps when the data was copied. Is such a setting available in these programs that I didn't see to set up?

3) If not, can robocopy be used for incremental backups as well as full? How to schedule the script to run a set backup routine?

5) A side question: I plan to use a 1TB external HDD for the image backups and the data backups; should I have just one partition and make two main folders to keep these backups separate or should I make separate partitions? How should the security tab read for permissions/access - that is, should both user accounts have full control

I've been working on this for several days without much luck so greatly appreciate some timely help!

Thank you...I don't have encrypted files to copy onto the SSD so will remove the /EFSRAW parameter to be able to use the /MT:16 parameter and give this a try. ---dpwoodpecker

I imagine it is possible for the remote file structure to be compromised in such a way that running the backup script will simply replace your backup copy with an empty directory or empty files.

I've thought of a few ways to counteract this - one would be to create rolling backups by date and perhaps check size - if there is a major change in size, then throw an alert. Unfortunately this increases copy time as you're copying the whole file structure again each time.

The other option is to have it go through a dry run (/L), note if an inoranate number of files have been removed and don't perform the final action without interactive authorization but otherwise execute it automatically. (this is what I'm doing now, albeit manually).

Any more strategies that may be out there?

Or am I just being overly paranoid? Do these glitches just not happen? Remote mount points or file structure links get switched is just not something that happens?

Reviewed the prior posts in this thread but didn't see this brought up.

Thanks!

Greetings,

I have a written a Robocopy bat file to back up the files on my laptop to a portable USB connected drive. I had some issues with the date functions but got that straightened out.

Here is the bat file:

@Echo Off
Echo.
Echo.
Echo You must run this file by right clicking and run as Administrator.
Echo If not you won't get all the files. Crtl C exits.
Echo.
Echo.
If exist E:\ (Echo. External USB HD ready for BackUp) else (Echo. No External USB HD detected & Goto :EOF)
Echo.
pause
Echo.


For /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set ToDay=%%c-%%a-%%b)

Robocopy "C:\Users\%UserName%\Favorites" "E:\Ray_BackUp-%ToDay%\Favorites" /E /Z /XA:H /R:10 /W:20

Robocopy "C:\Users\%UserName%\Desktop\*.bat" "E:\Ray_BackUp_%ToDay%\Desktop" /E/Z /XA:H /R:10 /W:20

Robocopy "C:\Users\%UserName%\Documents" "E:\Ray_BackUp_%ToDay%\My Documents" /E /Z /XA:H /R:10 /W:20

Robocopy "C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail" "E:\Ray_BackUp_%ToDay%\Windows Mail" /E/Z /XA:H /R:10 /W:20

Robocopy "C:\Xnews_test 2006.06.28" "E:\Ray_BackUp_%ToDay%\XNEWS" /E /COPYALL /R:10 /W:20

Set ToDay=
::END_OF_BATCH
Echo.
Echo.
Echo. All Done
pause


When I run this bat file as an Administrator, it produces 5 folders:

Ray_BackUp_2014-08-27 which contains the Favorites folder and its contents
Ray_BackUp_2014-08-27 which contains the Desktop folder and this bat file
Ray_BackUp_2014-08-27 which contains the My Documents folder and its contents
Ray_BackUp_2014-08-27 which contains the Windows Live Mail Folder and its contents
Ray_BackUp_2014-08-27 which contains the XNEWS Folder and its contents.

So everything gets copied, however, I really wanted something like this:

Ray_BackUp_2014-08-27 with a subfolder for Favorites
a subfolder for Desktop
a subfolder for My Documents
a subfolder for Windows Live Mail
a subfolder for XNEWS

Just so you know, I keep 2 backups and delete the oldest backup so I don't want to mess with using the feature that copies only the newest files, etc.

So can someone help me fix my bat file to get the desired results?

Thanks in advance for your help and suggestions!