Hi,

I would like to schedule a task to run each day, which would backup some
files from the computer drive to an external HD. However, I would ideally
like to have a backup folder/file per day of the week, rather than overwrite
the last backup each day.

For instance, I would have on the external drive the following folders:

Backup-Monday
Backup-Tuesday
Backup-Wednesday
Backup-Thursday
Backup-Friday

Only the following week the day would get overwritten (so it gives us one
week to notice an issue).

Do you know if this possible to achieve with the standard backup tool in XP?

Thanks,
Tom

Try a program called Second Copy 2000. Much better than windows will
probably ever be when it comes to backups.
"Tom" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I would like to schedule a task to run each day, which would backup some
> files from the computer drive to an external HD. However, I would ideally
> like to have a backup folder/file per day of the week, rather than
overwrite
> the last backup each day.
>
> For instance, I would have on the external drive the following folders:
>
> Backup-Monday
> Backup-Tuesday
> Backup-Wednesday
> Backup-Thursday
> Backup-Friday
>
> Only the following week the day would get overwritten (so it gives us one
> week to notice an issue).
>
> Do you know if this possible to achieve with the standard backup tool in
XP?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
>

With vanilla ntbackup You run a normal backup first. That
backs up everthing you input into it.
Then you run differential monday - friday. That backups
only what has changed from last normal backup each day it
runs.
On Saturday or Sonday you run a normal backup and start
the process again.

Ideally this is the way it works, but ntbackup is very
vanilla.
I use Stomp Backup MYPC if your serious about backing up.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>I would like to schedule a task to run each day, which
would backup some
>files from the computer drive to an external HD.
However, I would ideally
>like to have a backup folder/file per day of the week,
rather than overwrite
>the last backup each day.
>
>For instance, I would have on the external drive the
following folders:
>
>Backup-Monday
>Backup-Tuesday
>Backup-Wednesday
>Backup-Thursday
>Backup-Friday
>
>Only the following week the day would get overwritten
(so it gives us one
>week to notice an issue).
>
>Do you know if this possible to achieve with the
standard backup tool in XP?
>
>Thanks,
>Tom
>
>
>.
>