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Hello everyone, this is my first real post here, I dont really understand how these forums work so please go easy on me if i did something wrong. Lets get onto the topic at hand. I had a problem at hand where i needed a way to back up world files of games, namely minecraft, but also wanted it for valhiem. I had this problem where my Minecraft world got corrupted and anything i did, just didnt work. I also had a problem with valhiem where the world suddenly "reset" to an earlier save from waaay back. These things keep happening and i guess they will keep happening. I wanted the ability to go back to any save folder for any reason. My requirements that I listed for this "thing" to do: Create a folder and give it a specific name along with todays date i.e: "MRG 6-24-22" in a specific location, Copy the world folder and paste it into that same folder. Do this anytime automatically, i am a huge fan of automation, I am super lazy, thats all. Now with these things at hand, i started researching back up options. They were all too complicated and didnt make sense for my lazy brain. went to reddit for some help with this specific task. all i basically got was "someone somewhere out there already did that, find em." tHaT wAs sUpEr hElPfUlL. Then shortly after, i found out about robocopy and that u can batch script it which means u can run it with windows task scheduler!!! i had found the solution to my problem. But i had NO IDEA how it worked, and i while i could follow along with a tutorial, i had no idea what i was doing. cause when i tried to run it on my own, it just refused to work. and when it did work it would just copy the folders, so id literally have a massive empty folder full of empty folders, or all the files without the folders. Anyway, I gave up and shelved the project for a year or so, till last week. Before last week i was manually copying the world files of the Minecraft server i was running for me and friends. every two days i would do exactly what i said myself. Until in the minecraft world, i accidentally blew up a massive portion of our stuff. The latest save?? two days ago, I had just done so much grinding in those two days. PAIN. Anyway, fed up with eveything I dusted off the project and took another look. long story short after about a whole day messing around with robocopy, learning the different thing its capable of, i finally created the very tool i had been dying to have. i am here to share it with anyone in the same predicament as me. \ / Anyway, lets get to the point, the script i used is actually very simple its basically: robocopy "(Source Folder Pathway)" "(Destination folder Pathway)\(Name) %date:~-10,2%"-"%date:~7,2%"-"%date:~-4,4%\world" /e /MT:16 /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ Initiate the tool. The stuff u want to copy. Where to paste it. Create a new folder with this name. Use this to get todays date. Arguments I need to say that i am assuming you will be running this on a system that runs constantly, it wont work if your system is asleep i guess? it didnt work on my laptop while it was asleep. i have a seperate machine just call "server" that runs my Minecraft server and this script. Anyway, i encourage you to mess with robocopy and learn to really understand it better cause i dont feel like ill do good enough in explaining it. But most of the stuff is self explanatory, use my pictures for implementation reference to know how i set it up and used windows task scheduler. Ill explain the more difficult things i hard the hardest time with, starting with getting the date to be printed in the file name, just copy this tbh cause i have no idea what it means but it works lol: %date:~-10,2%"-"%date:~7,2%"-"%date:~-4,4%. When putting in your file pathways, if any names have spaces, put quotations around the entire path (refer to my example), or always put quotations just to be safe cause i cant be bothered to check for spaces. the arguments i used are very simple: /e just means copy everything, im not sure why this isnt the default but whatever. MT:16 is multithreading with your specified amount of threads, use as many threads your computer has available to get the job done faster, without this argument, i believe it just copies one at a time, but with MT, it will do that many simultaneously. if u just put "/MT" it will default to 4 threads (i think). I have an i9 9900K, 8 cores 16 threads. I just noticed that its supposed to be 16 threads and in my picture its 18 threads, i have been running that for a few days with no issue, but i just went back and changed it. you can have robocopy create a file with a desired name if you add extra paths that dont actually exist, for example: You want to paste your source contents into a file on your desktop folder named "Backups" but you dont want to dump all the folders into backup, u want them in a single folder named "BigBoy" to oragnize better, just add "\Bigboy" at the end of your whole pathway. I.e: C:\Users\19167\Desktop\BackUps\BigBoy. Then it will put all your files in that new folders. Saying this cause i wish someone told me u can do this earlier to save me hours of trying to script a whole new batch that would create a new folder and name it for the robocopy to dump into the latest folder. and tbh i dont even know if thats possible but it doesn't matter now. You normally run this in CMD but i have no idea how to automate that so instead just create a notepad, type up your script, go to save as, where you name the folder, at the end of the name type ".bat" to make it an executable. double click to test run your new invention. Dont kill your computer with your newly built virus lol jkjk jk. And thats about it, robocopy has many other functions other than this, for example, you can keep just one back up of the world thats constantly updated whenever u want. Also i forgot to mention that i also have the windows scheduler run the script every hour which means its saved every hour to the most current folder till its the next day, then it makes a new folder for the new day and does the same. All of this is 2AM babble basically so i apologies if stuff doesnt make sense, just ask and i will clarify. i needed to get this out now or i wont ever do it. Also i did this to help those that have my same problem cause this is what i wanted others to do when i was struggling to figure all of this out.

Hi, I need some help with my backup. My situation: I have a laptop and a desktop with a large hard drive for storage. I periodically backup the laptop to a portable SSD using Acronis and differential backup. I want to have an automatic solution to copying that backup to my desktop. I know this can be done with a robocopy script in a .bat file and an autorun, but I'm not sure how to make it work when I plug in the drive. I would prefer to avoid a solution requiring other software. I tried to modify a solution from this thread but I don't know how to make it start on it's own when I connect the SSD to the desktop. https://superuser.com/questions/22766/how-can-i-automatically-copy-files-to-a-usb-drive-when-i-connect-it-to-my-comput these are the "scripts" I use: the .bat file: @echo off cls echo waiting goto check Change the STUFF TO COPY location to the folder that you want everything inside to be send to the usb's, and change the 3 instances of G: to whatever drive letter that the USB uses. Good Luck! :start set choice= robocopy "W:\BACKUP\VOJTA-NOTEBOOK" "D:\BACKUP\VOJTA-NOTEBOOK" /E /XA:SH /R:3 /NP /V echo Waiting for removal goto wait :check timeout /t 1 /nobreak >nul if exist "W:" (goto start) else goto check :wait timeout /t 1 /nobreak >nul if exist "W:" (goto wait) else ( echo removed echo waiting goto check ) the autorun: [autorun] ;Open=backup_copy_ntb.bat ShellExecute=backup_copy_ntb.bat UseAutoPlay=1 Does anyone have any suggestion please?

Hey everyone Im trying to find a way to copy a large number of files, but only replace the file at the target if the source is smaller. I can find multiple solutions online for the other way around, replace if larger, or newer, or older. But nothing for if smaller Running windows 10, but can fire up a linux VM if needed to make bulk copying easier. Any ideas?

Hallo everybody at the moment I work at a PowerShell Script and I found BITS and it would be nice to use but is it better/faster than robocopy? Speed, reliability ect. Thank you for you help in advance PS: Basicly where is the differance

I regularly do backups of my PC, but I don't want to backup unnecessary data, and I'd like to know how to exclude a folder from the backup process. I use Robocopy, and automate it using Task Scheduler. Thanks!