[Dx4win] DX4Win backups

[Larry Gauthier (K8UT)]

I agree with you, Jim. My preference has always been for things that "thrive 
on neglect". Old-fashioned DOS batch files just make me nervous.

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My latest software discovery for file back-up and synchronization is a free 
program from www.2brightsparks.com called SyncBack. This gem can perform 
automated back-ups (makes an exact copy of your files in a second location) 
or synchronization (compares the files in two locations and make them 
identical based on the most recent date/time stamps) using the Windows 
scheduler -- so there is no processor overhead for having this run in the 
background. Aside from file I/O, the program knows about stuff like SMTP, 
HTTP, FTP, and ZIP -- very flexible.

A very cool, FREE utility and highly recommended.
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-larry
K8UT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
To: "Roger D Johnson" <n1rj at adelphia.net>
Cc: <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 23:37
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] DX4Win backups


> At 04:01 PM 12/1/2005, Roger D Johnson wrote:
>
>>I wrote a small batch file for the old PKZIP program that writes the data 
>>in the SAVE folder to a floppy.
>
> That's a great start, Roger, but you still have to run it by hand.
>
> I like the Iomega Automatic Backup program because it runs silently in the 
> background without user intervention.
>
> People will generally do the minimum to get by, so relying on them to 
> initiate backups is a bad policy, in my opinion.
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C
>
>
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