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

[haroldef]

On 5/23/2011 8:41 AM, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> 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.
>
Hi,

Also look into xxcopy.

Harold