Effective Inexpensive Backups – Part 4 of 5
After you make the batch files you will need to schedule them in Windows Task Scheduler (Windows XP or Windows 7). Make sure both machines are on when the backup is scheduled. You will need to run the scheduled task with a profile that has sufficient permissions to the data and a password. We usually schedule them late at night so it does not impact performance of either machine. For machines that are running Windows XP, you will need to leave the machine with the scheduled tasks logged in to the appropriate profile. We usually schedule each to run once per day. I would recommend the batch files in this example be scheduled in the order Part 3, Part 2, and then Part 1. The incremental backups will not copy anything if the other copies run first. You can combine all three into one batch to ensure the proper timing. The resulting file would look like this::
rd /s/q e:\backup\inc9 rename e:\backup\inc8 inc9 rename e:\backup\inc7 inc8 rename e:\backup\inc6 inc7 rename e:\backup\inc5 inc6 rename e:\backup\inc4 inc5 rename e:\backup\inc3 inc4 rename e:\backup\inc2 inc3 rename e:\backup\inc inc2 xcopy /c/h/s/v/m \\server\data e:\backup\inc xcopy /c/h/e/v/d/y \\server\data e:\backup\all rd /s/q e:\backup\full3 rename e:\backup\full2 full3 rename e:\backup\full full2 xcopy /c/h/e/v/y \\server\data e:\backup\full rename e:\backup\inc8 inc9