Don't Exaggerate The Pain of Maintaining Some Semblance of a Backup System

Take these steps to create a backup routine now on your Windows-based PC.

If you don't already have a "Batch" folder where you keep scripts for automating miscellaneous tasks, go ahead and create this folder in your C: or D: drive, or other location.

Open this folder in Explorer.

Right click, and select "Text Document".  Change the file name to "backup.bat", and then right click and select "Edit".

The following will assume you have a folder on a separate hard drive, or other media, called "MyBackups" and that you have important web site files in a folder called c:\mywebstuff

The first line of backup.bat will be a "comment" that describes the next line.

This line will be: 

REM ==== This backs up my important web site files

The second line will be

xcopy c:\mywebstuff\*.htm? e:\MyBackups /m /s

 

Save this file, and close Notepad ( or other editor )

At the end of each day, double click on this batch file so that you have a copy safely on another physical medium.

Files To Copy For some common applications, and reminders Firefox: Backup everything in “C:\Documents and Settings\your-name\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*.*” which have the extensions: *.js, *.html, and *.db. Outlook: First export to a PST file. Then include this PST file in the backup script (or simply leave out the backup script above, and simply specify a folder during the export process that is on a separate drive) Remember to include your My Document Folders if you make use of this default windows-chosen folder for creating document Use a Palm Pilot? The folder would be similar to C:\Program Files\Palm\<yourname>\*.*.  Do you use an Outliner tool, such as Treepad? Your files are probably in a folder such as C:\Program Files\Treepad What about ebooks you've bought, such as Internet Marketing, self-help ebooks, etc.  Remember to include this folder in your back up script above.