Guest John Posted October 2, 2007 Posted October 2, 2007 Hi How can I schedule a daily backup for a selected files from C: drive onto drive E: (which is an external backup drive)? I am OK with Backup in xp but don't know how to schedule it. Thanks Regards
Guest Universe_JDJ Posted October 2, 2007 Posted October 2, 2007 Re: Scheduled backup John wrote: > Hi > > How can I schedule a daily backup for a selected files from C: drive onto > drive E: (which is an external backup drive)? I am OK with Backup in xp but > don't know how to schedule it. > > Thanks > > Regards > > How To Schedule Tasks in Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308569 Hope that helps.
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted October 3, 2007 Posted October 3, 2007 Re: Scheduled backup "John" <John@nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote in message news:%23AsxXGUBIHA.3716@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Hi > > How can I schedule a daily backup for a selected files from C: drive onto > drive E: (which is an external backup drive)? I am OK with Backup in xp > but don't know how to schedule it. > > Thanks > > Regards One thing to note is that many scheduled tasks will by default NOT run if there is no password on the user account. Account passwords are default requirements of the Windows Task Scheduler, and this Scheduler is used by a lot of software. You can change this, but it is cutting a security hole to do so. HTH -pk
Guest Antioch Posted October 3, 2007 Posted October 3, 2007 Re: Scheduled backup "John" <John@nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote in message news:%23AsxXGUBIHA.3716@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Hi > > How can I schedule a daily backup for a selected files from C: drive onto > drive E: (which is an external backup drive)? I am OK with Backup in xp > but don't know how to schedule it. > > Thanks > > Regards > Most computers come with some form of burning software installed - like Nero - do you not have that. Backup is about all these free progs will do. Rgds Antioch
Guest Universe_JDJ Posted October 3, 2007 Posted October 3, 2007 Re: Scheduled backup Antioch wrote: > "John" <John@nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote in message > news:%23AsxXGUBIHA.3716@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >> Hi >> >> How can I schedule a daily backup for a selected files from C: drive onto >> drive E: (which is an external backup drive)? I am OK with Backup in xp >> but don't know how to schedule it. >> >> Thanks >> >> Regards >> > > Most computers come with some form of burning software installed - like > Nero - do you not have that. > Backup is about all these free progs will do. > > Rgds > Antioch > > Unless there are an exceptionally large number of files (that are spread out among many directories) a batch file would work just fine for something like this.
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