Re: external hard drive backup

Here's the CHEAP option (but very effective):

In the past I've used XCOPY
(http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/xcopy.mspx)
in batch scripts to do backups. It can do incremental backups using the
archive bit and has some other nice options. Just write up a script and
set up a scheduled task to run it.

You can get a USB external drive enclosure really cheap, stick in an
extra hard drive (too small for a desktop machine but perfect for
backups), and set up an XCOPY task for automatic backups.

-- 
Allison Henry
Internal Computing Support
Communications and Network Services
University of California, Berkeley
Jon Johnsen wrote:
> 
>         We have two users who would like to use an external hard drive 
> for weekly or biweekly backup of datasets.
> 
>         The users could use almost any external USB hard drive and just 
> copy the relevant folders, but we would like to be able to recommend an 
> external hard drive/backup software combination which would make such 
> backups almost automatic.
> 
>         Any suggestions? (Hard drive size isn't a real consideration, 
> since any external hard drive will be much larger than is really needed.)
> 
> 
> Jon Johnsen
> Information Systems Office
> School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
> 510  643.4357
> 
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