OpenEuphoria

1. QBACK

• Posted by dcole Jan 18, 2010
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I found a wonderful program in the archives for walking directory and backing up files (what I've been trying to do).

QBACK by Rob Craig. (Quick Backup).

The first time you run it takes a long time.

After that it only backs up files that have changed.

The first time I ran it took 20.5 mins.

The second time 3.9 secs.

A couple of problems I had "Can't find XCOPY and deltree",

In Windows XP XCOPY.exe is in the system32 folder. Copy it in the same folder as QBACK.

Also in XP deltree has been changed to RD. See http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2007/09/24/deltree-command-replacement-in-windows-2000-or-windows-xp/

Thank you Roger Craig.

Don Cole

3. e: QBACK

• Posted by alanjohnoxley Jan 20, 2010
• 1209 views

Yup, done this too (only backup whats changed)
Those who are interested in backups, might also consider the free syncback from www.2brightsparks.com .

Every commercial backup program that I have seen thus far, uses the approach that the user should go through a directory tree and
then identify *themselves* as to what should be backed up. This is a fundamental flaw IMHO.
Of the 40 persons in my office, an IT company BTW, one third don't even do backups; 10 of them did not know where their own
docs were stored on thier harddrives! The third that don't do backups say they don't know what to backup, and doing the entire harddrive
is impractical due to time and disk space.
So my Euphoria app scans thier entire c:\ drive, and by applying user changeable filters to find important files, exclude junk, a list
of whats to be backed up is displayed. That can be refined by editing the filters. The list is then given to the excellent ARJ backup
program, and there you go!
IMHO if doing a backup is difficult, it doesn't get done. Hence my unusual method.

Comments are welcome.

Regards, Alan