Back-up file in the same drive....is this possible?

[EdRev]

I want to run a Windows batch job to back-up (copy) files into the same drive (directory). If this is possibe, please let me know how to do it.

I appreciate any feedbacks.

 

[clivo]

As duplicate file names are not permissable within the same directory, the answer has to be no. Depending on what you are trying to achieve, there are other possibilities.

- You could copy the contents of one directory to another, and this is most likely easiest to achieve and automate via a good old DOS Batch file, such as "copy c:\folder1\*.* c:\folder2*.*"

- This can be time consuming, especially if the folder is large and worse still if most files don't change. Far better to use an archive / compression program. I used to use ARJ to do something like this; but I used the relevent switches to update the archive with changed and / or new files. If you opt for this route, make sure you use a really good utility. I found ARJ to be rock solid and achieved really good compression ratios, and of course it is really fast. Write a .BAT file, put a short cut to your desktop and away you go.

One thing though, I would not feel safe with putting any form of backup or copy on the same drive, let alone in the same directory. Like I said, depends on what you wanna do it for.

 

[fenris]

I wrote a small batch file that copies the important windows file to a directory on my other hardrive. I also have a backup program winrescue 98 running to make decent backups to the network drive. I found more often then not if the computer was fried, the winrescue would work properly. That little batch file backup worked wonders and saved my butt more then a couple of times. I can remeber one incident that it saved me a reinstall of the O/S!!