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Copying Contents Between Directories Without Imaging
Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 8:04 pm
by blafarm
Quick question, that I believe the answer to is "No" -- but just want to confirm.
Many image backup products like TeraByte offer the option of scheduling a straight copy of files and folder located in one directory -- to another directory (frequently located on another drive).
This backup process takes place without wrapping the resulting files in a formal image. The copied directory is a mirror image of the source directory,
Does TeraByte include this functionality in a module that I am not finding?
Thanks
Re: Copying Contents Between Directories Without Imaging
Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 9:53 pm
by Brian K
blafarm,
You can do that with TBOSDT. See page 10 in the user guide....
COPY c:\test\* c:\test2 /s
Edit... you could also use TeraByte Explorer.
Re: Copying Contents Between Directories Without Imaging
Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 11:30 pm
by blafarm
Thanks Brian K.
However, looking at the user guide, it seems this functionality can only be called from command shell or script, and there does not seem to be an integrated scheduling component.
My goal was to automatically backup of a specific directory onto an alternate drive in a fixed interval of time (like 1x/week).
From what I am gathering, by itself, this is not a solution for that goal.
Do you agree?
Re: Copying Contents Between Directories Without Imaging
Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 11:35 pm
by Brian K
blafarm,
You could schedule the script to run weekly. What are your source and target folder paths? We could help out with a script.
Re: Copying Contents Between Directories Without Imaging
Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 6:31 am
by Eric
If you schedule something under Windows to copy from à drive letter to another, it's probably better to use Robocopy, and thus to schedule à DOS batch?
Re: Copying Contents Between Directories Without Imaging
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2018 3:28 pm
by blafarm
Sorry to all for the delayed response to your generous suggestions and offers to assist.
I'm just circling back to this challenge after a massive distraction.
As I need to make bulletproof daily backups of an Outlook.pst, I feel a bit uncomfortable with accomplishing this task with a separate script.
At this point in time, I think I will just use another integrated program (Acronis) for this one particular function.
For reasons too numerous to mention, I don't actually like Acronis -- however, this directory-level backup feature is baked into the product.
Thanks again.
Re: Copying Contents Between Directories Without Imaging
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 3:24 am
by The Seeker
Bvckup 2 is the nicest pure directory copying program I've come across.
Re: Copying Contents Between Directories Without Imaging
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 5:34 am
by blafarm
Thanks, I'll take a look.
Re: Copying Contents Between Directories Without Imaging
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 12:39 pm
by DrTeeth
On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 01:34:44 EDT, just as I was about to take a herb,
blafarm disturbed my reverie and wrote:
>Thanks, I'll take a look.
A simple one line batch file would do the trick too. I use MailStore
Home, a free utility, to back up my Outlook emails.
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Cheers,
DrT
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