File backup - one nifty solution
I have been looking at ways to back up the various files in the store.
I need to have reliable automated copies of the Point of Sale system as well as of QuickBooks. Both allow for manual copy to another disk or thumb-drive but I want something automated.
I had been looking around and since I have used
rsync and
cron a lot on Linux platforms, I first looked at implementing it on Windows.
Tonight, I found out about a free
PowerToy from Microsoft called SyncToy and it looks like it will be perfect.
Check out
SyncToy
I tried it on the trip photos stored on this laptop and with a portable USB hard drive that I have been using for backing them up and it worked great -- finding new photos and copying them over to the backup drive. It does slow the system down quite a bit while copying but if you do it when the system is not otherwise being used (use MSFT's Task Scheduler)
Very cool!
I will be using a couple portable hard drives (I can build them for under $100 each) and rotating these home every few days.
Problem solved...
Posted by DaveH at March 10, 2008 7:18 PM