Copy data to External HD

[Chad]

Does anyone know of a program that I can use to schedule
a copy of just data to an external hard drive for backup
purpose. I just need to be able to tell it at 11:00pm
copy c:\data to e:\data, it would be nice if would name
the folder based on the date (i.e. e:\08082004 etc)

Thanks

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

What about just using the included NTBackup program? You can back up to a
file wherever you like - and schedule it to run using task scheduler.

 

[Chad]

I don't want to copy it to a file, I would rather copy
all the files to the drive as they are.

 

[Colon Terminus]

NTBackup is your friend. It'll do just what you want.

The following 2 lines copied into a .cmd text file will create a a folder
named like you wanted.

for /f "tokens=2,3,4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date/t') do set MYdate=%%a-%%b-%%c
md %MYdate%

 

[Chad]

How do I use that? i.e ntbackup test.cmd? how do I tell
it the drive letter to backup to?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Might want to look into robocopy from the resource kit.