efficiently backing up your data

Hi there. Since I have to backup like 10 to 15 computer at my job, i was searching for a way to automate this.

What do you need: A source directory and a NAS / EXTERNAL / LAN / OTHER PARTITION drive

here is the little batch script ive written for that purpos.

http://pastebin.com/f7584dd42

So what do you need to do:

make sure you adjust this with your own values:

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:: settings
Set backupFolder=SERVER_1
Set backupLOGFolder=c:\BackupLogs
Set destDir=\\server\backup\%backupFolder%

then just modify the path that should be updated. In the example i backup the mozilla Firefox profiles (for the bookmarks etc)

Just replace the first ARG :"%HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH%\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles"

and the second ARG :"%destDir%\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles"

where the first arg is the source and the second path is the destination.
You may also want to change the Echo message and the logPath / logFile

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:: backup the mozilla profiles
ECHO ">> Backing up the Mozilla Profiles . . ."
robocopy "%HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH%\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles" "%destDir%\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles" /r:1 /w:1 /E /A-:H /NP /V /LOG:%backupLOGFolder%\Firefox.log
cls

This is rly easy fast and handy and a big plus of robocopy is the detailed logging and the MANY options.

Hope this helped some1.

Laters

Thx to jeje for the robocopy > xcopy hint!