Windows backups (was Re: A summary of all of the bad Linux advice in the CentOS thread earlier this month)

[Kenneth Brody]

On 5/22/2011 12:42 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
[...]
> Now I live in a Windows world and on my own system back up to tape and also use xcopy to an external drive. This allows me to restore files quickly.
[...]

If you have Vista and/or Windows 7, look into "robocopy" as a replacement 
for "xcopy".  It can, for example, overwrite existing files in the 
destination only if the source is newer (great for mirroring directories on 
a different drive), or skip files/directories that match wildcards.  It can 
also skip "junctions" (aka "symlinks"), which will avoid xcopy's infinite 
recursion into "\users\username\appdata\local", which includes a junction 
called "Application Data", which points back to the "...\local" directory.

-- 
Kenneth Brody