Christopher Greaves

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Encryption And Off-site Backup Storage (Home) ; Overview ; The Problem ; The Essence Of The Solution ; How Long Does It Take To Do A Backup? ; Assumptions ; Breakdown Of Tasks ; The Stand-Alone Solution ; The Networked Solution ; Let’s Get Started ; Mounting The Backup Drive ; Mounting An Encrypted Drive ; Waiting For The Backup Drive ; Processing Each Local Drive ; RoboCopy New And Later Files ; RoboCopy Parameter Files ; Append Session Details To A Log File ; Shutting Down the Computer ; Review For Local Systems ; Putting Together The Local Backup System ; SUBSTituting A Drive For A Folder ; Assembling The Batch File ; ( TITLE commands ); Running The Backup Batch File ; Examining Our Results ; Waiting For A Set Of Drives ; Issue the Backup Command To A Set Of Drives ; Modifying The Driving Batch File ; What About The Log File? ; The Upgraded Set Of Batch Files ; Encryption of backup data ; What Is Involved In Encrypting A Backup Device? ; ( Advice On Passwords ); What Is Involved In Mounting An Encrypted Device? ; User Mounted Or Automated? ; Using A DOS Batch File To Facilitate Mounting ; Using A DOS Batch File To Facilitate Dismounts ; Making The External Drives Available Across The Network ; Mounting A Shared Drive For Sharing ; Installing On A Networked Computer ; Running On The Big Beige Box ; An Improved Method Of Waiting ; Shutdown Or Restart? ; At Long Last! A Working Version! ; The Backup.BAT file ; The Mount.BAT file ; The ProcessDrive.BAT file ; The Shutdown.BAT File ; The Encryption Process

Toronto and Mississauga, Friday, December 03, 2010 8:30 AM

RoboCopy Parameter Files

You can skip this section for now. It shows how to provide RobCopy with more parameters than can be fitted on a single command line.

A quick glance will show you my /Subdirectory, /Retry and /WaitTime switches.

You’ll see too that I instruct RoboCopy to ignore specific folders and files which I know, absolutely, are useless.

(I save throw-awy files with names like “eraseme” and “eraseme2”, so any file that starts with “eras” is not a candidate for backup).

I urge you NOT to ignore specific folders and files unless you are ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that you can get away with not backing them up.

Remember that RoboCopy will copy (in our mode), only files with a later date than existing files, so you won’t be copying your entire machine every night!

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:: Robocopy Job B:\JOB02.RCJ
::
:: Created by ChrisL on Sun Aug 31 2008 at 06:28:38
::
:: Example of command line use
:: robocopy b: z: /job:job02.rcj
:: robocopy \\Lap\LapG\Greaves Y:\Lap\Greaves /job:job02.rcj
::
::
:: Source Directory :
::
/NOSD		:: NO Source Directory is specified.
::			:: To Be Specified on the Command Line
::
:: Destination Directory :
::
/NODD		:: NO Destination Directory is specified.
::			:: To Be Specified on the Command Line
::
:: Subdirectories
::
/S
::
:: Include These Files :
::
/IF		:: Include Files matching these names
::		*.*	:: Include all names (currently - Command Line may override)
::
:: Exclude These Directories :
::
/XD		:: eXclude Directories matching these names
Windows
Local Settings
System Volume Information
MSOCache
Content.IE5
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:: Exclude These Files :
::
/XF		:: eXclude Files matching these names
eras*.*
pagefile.sys
~*.*
*.tmp
::
:: Copy options :
::
/COPY:DAT	:: what to COPY (default is /COPY:DAT).
::
:: Retry Options :
::
/R:0	:: number of Retries on failed copies: default 1 million.
/W:1		:: Wait time between retries: default is 30 seconds.
::
:: Logging Options :
::
::	/NFL
::	/NDL

Append Session Details To A Log File

Toronto and Mississauga, Friday, December 03, 2010 8:30 AM