Re: computer back-up question??
Hmmm, OK, lets get this sorted out.<br /><br />This is what I think you have from your description:<br /><br />You have a physical hard drive, with one logical drive partition called "C"<br />You have a second physical hard drive partitioned into 2 logical drives "D & G "respectively<br />You have an external Firewire drive with one logical drive partition called "H"<br /><br />Is this right??<br /><br />Your program is installed to the "C drive" and it's data files are stored only to the Firewire "H drive"<br /><br />If your into DOS batch files, you can write a small batch file to copy the contents of the data files on the "H drive" over to separate file folders on D and G drives. It would be nice to have a backup file naming convention to retain previous backups. Another nice feature is to use a file compression program to create the backups to keep the backup files small. One such program is PKZIP or WinZip. This batch file could allow you to do multiple backups on the same day, giving each backup a unique file name.<br /><br />Here's what it might look like if you have a backup folder on your D drive:<br /><br />D:\Program Backup ( This is the folder for your backups)<br /><br />inside of this folder you could see files called:<br /><br />12102004.zip (this backup file was created on 12/10/2004)<br />12122004.zip (this backup file was created on 12/12/2004) <br /><br />Multiple backups on the same day would look like this:<br /><br />12102004a.zip<br />12102004b.zip The addition of a letter would denote a sequence of backups on the same day.<br />12102004c.zip <br /><br /><br />This is only half of the story ......you should also have another batch file to restore from a previous backup if needed. This batch file would un-compress the backup file and copy it's contents BACK to the Firewire drive.<br /><br />Is this what you had in mind??
