Back up tips for windows?

[ilgulamc]

Hello, I know it's not amiga related, but I need help with this..

I would need to make a daily or hourly backup of a windows directory. For me it is not important to do it on another support, I just need to copy it in another directory of the same harddisk. Better would be to create a different directory everytime, with as the name of the directory the date and time of the back up (if possible).

Is there a easy way to do it? if not, is there a software that you could reccommend me that does it?

Thank you.

P.S. sorry, forgot to say that it should be automatic and transparent, running on background.

[Jope]

Use windows scripting host + windows scheduler.

Search microsoft.com for info on these, it's out of the scope of this site to explain / teach windows scripting..

Another option would be to install cygwin and create a shell script that runs from cron. Again, there are plenty of shell tutorials on the net.

[darksun9210]

another option if using win2k or winXP is to use the windows backup utility. its basicly a cut down version of Seagate backupexec. this can backup to a file on disk.

another option would be to use the disk administrator to setup mirroring on a 2nd drive.

[Jope]

I don't think you can schedule and background windows backup?

I haven't looked at it very much, however - it sends and gets my files to DLT just fine,  but I use it manually.. :-)

[darksun9210]

hmmm... you should be able to. i'm at least fairly certain it has a scheduler in there, given its just a rebadged version of backupexec. mind you, how "cut down" have microsoft made it?

if needed, i'm sure i have an old version of Legato Netbackup for WinNT kicking about somewhere.

[ilgulamc]

Thank you all, I found an easier solution, it's called Backup Magic, downloaded from Download.com, it makes everything I needed it to do.

Thanks againa nd sorry for the topic.. :-D