Small Request?

[Demigod]

I haven’t posted any images, or got any work done today as I had to reformat my computer. I had a very nasty crash no doubt brought about by running dromed, doom edit, winamp, painshop pro, gimp, mozilla and powerdvd all at the same time.

 

Yes a duel ( is it duel or dual? sorry to be thick) core cpu would be nice

 

But the upshot of this is that the map I was working on, the backup, and strangely half the other files in my map dir were corrupted and windows refused to boot except in safe mode where it promptly crashed. To save several hours I just formatted and I now have everything up and running again.

 

Now its not all bad as I, luckily, have a back up from last night so I just lost a little work today but on to the request.

Can someone with knowledge of the archaic language of dos write me a .bat file, or rather just tell me how, that will make a backup of my map dir on start-up? I know how to set the start-up to work but I don’t know how to make dos backup a dir. Does anyone know?

 

 

Thanks

 

p.s. I wasn’t sure if I should post this in general or not

[Domarius]

You need to use XCOPY.

 

To make a bat file, just make a .txt file and save it as .bat

Then put it in your startup.

 

The only thing you need to enter into this batch file is;

xcopy path1\ path2\ /e

 

where path1\ is the source, and path2\ is the destination, so

 

xcopy C:\Doom3\maps C:\maps_backup\ /e

 

would copy all the stuff from maps folder (including sub directories) to the maps_backup folder. Make sure you include the \ on the end of the path name.

 

The /e tells it to copy everything including subdirectories.

[sparhawk]

Making a backupo like this is best if done on a different partition, or even better making it on another harddrive. Also if you just do it like this, you should at least rename the old bakcup before you create the new one, so you have at least two copies. One that should work and the new one (which could be corrupted).

[gleeful]

there's a neat little freeware tool called VIF Archiver, that allows you to back up certain files and/or folders in zip-format and also has a shortcut for doing so and then shutting down your computer.

 

use that shortcut everytime you turn your system off and you're on the safe side.

 

you can find it right here: http://www.softcat.org/vif/index.php

 

kind regards

gleeful

[Demigod]

Thanks all I got it setup now so it runs a backup of my maps to my network server (not as grand as it sounds) on startup