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music_collector · 08-05-2022, 09:30 PM

A discussion on backing up data appeared in the shout box today. For those of you interested, this is a simple command you can run in windows to back up your data.

In Windows, click the start button. Type in command prompt, and select it. In the command prompt window, type this.

robocopy "d:\source folder" "g:\destination folder" *.* /PURGE /E /R:5 /W:5

This command will copy the contents of d:\source folder to my g: drive, which in this case is an external 2TB USB hard drive. If you run this command regularly, the computer will scan both folders. It will only copy files that have been changed, or don't exist. This is called a differential backup.

08-05-2022, 09:30 PM	#11 (permalink)
music_collector Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2022 Location: Canada Posts: 744	A discussion on backing up data appeared in the shout box today. For those of you interested, this is a simple command you can run in windows to back up your data. In Windows, click the start button. Type in command prompt, and select it. In the command prompt window, type this. *robocopy "d:\source folder" "g:\destination folder" .* /PURGE /E /R:5 /W:5** This command will copy the contents of d:\source folder to my g: drive, which in this case is an external 2TB USB hard drive. If you run this command regularly, the computer will scan both folders. It will only copy files that have been changed, or don't exist. This is called a differential backup.