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A Windows backup script you can use -- a gift from me to you
I have created a batch file that you can run interactively or call from the Windows Task Scheduler to backup your Windows Users folder (or any other, if that's your choice). It uses the free programs...
Thanks a lot, dear Santa, uh Sandshark and happy new year :-)
Thx for posting.
The forum software turned two text strings into emoticons, which of course won't work. I took the liberty of bolding the two :s that triggered this, so users can cut/paste the bat file into notepad with no problems.
Thanks. Yeah, that would have thrown some folks off.
Wow, it does that when you put it in a CODE box? Just one more thing that makes this really bad software. And it doesn't show you them when you edit, either -- so make that two more things.
There is one more thing I decided I should add to help in troubleshooting. While I said to use a drive mapping the you don't use for anything else, it turns out that having a window open to the target NAS folder, even if not mapped, causes an error I can't avoid. But changing line 74 as follows (adding the 2>>&1) will at least put the relevant information in the log:
NET USE %MapDrive% "\\%NASIP%\%NASDir%" /PERSISTENT:NO /USER:%NASUser% %NASUserPW% >>"%~dp0BULog.txt" 2>>&1
Thanks, too, for the info that bolding can work around the problem. I'll have to look out for the conversion and use that if there is a next time.
Sandshark wrote:
Thanks. Yeah, that would have thrown some folks off.
Wow, it does that when you put it in a CODE box? Just one more thing that makes this really bad software. And it doesn't show you them when you edit, either -- so make that two more things.
Yes, it is a pain, and it really shouldn't do that in a code box. :smileyfrustrated:
Overall, there's no need to render the common emoticon abbreviations as emoticons anywhere in the posts, since it's easy enough to use the menu to add emoticons if you want them - and the menus don't use those abbreviations, they use strings like :smileyfrustrated: . Bolding part of the string is the only workaround I've found, and bolding the : doesn't stand out.
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