Automated Daily Data Backup to DVD+RW

[sironside]

I am wanting to do a DAILY backup of my network shared drive on an office system.

The drive contains about 3GB's of data.

I have formatted my DVD+RW and can manually do the backup, however I am wondering the best route to take to do an automated backup, preferably daily at a set schedualed time.

Also if possible I would like it to overwrite only the files that have been modifyed since the previous backup.

The system involved in this setup is the following:

AMD 2500+ XP
Gigabyte GA-7VM400AMF w/ Video, Audio, Lan, SATA, IEEE 1394
512 MB PC3200 Micron
2 x 36GB Western Digital Raptor - - - Mirror Raid
1 x 120GB Seagate 7200 RPM Network Shared Drive
LG 8x DVD+/-RW Combo Drive
Windows XP Professional SP1a

I was thinking of doing a simple batch file and then running it in system scheduler but I am not familiar with the required switches to copy basically

d:\ *.* f:\

And enable it to overwrite the modified files while copying all contents and directories.
If possible this would all be done automated without any user intervention. ie)make a late evening backup while the system is idleing

Thanks for any input!!

[Jager-bomb]

I think some third-party programs are capable of this, but the default backup utility in Windows is not. You can schedule an incremental backup to run every day, but it's not capable of automatically burning the image, to the best of my knowledge.

Nero might be able to schedule something like that, I'm not sure though.

[Born_Loser]

The best program that I know of is Backer. It's shareware, and you can download a trial version at http://www.cordes-dev.de/english/trialversion.html. The latest version is 6.3.

It features the ability to schedule backups and drives can also be synchronized. You have the option of previewing the files and folders to be synchronized so that you can select what is to be copied (in either direction) and what is to be skipped, or deleted. It can be totally automated too, if you wish, to simplify the daily routine.

You can also link a wav file (wav's included) to an event so that a nice friendly female voice will prompt you when something's done! I am not an employee of Cordes Development, but I can vouch for this application.

Best of all, it's really simple to use, and does not take up much disk real-estate.

Better than using DOS (which is almost dead) and fiddling with switches. Sometimes using a DOS switch wrongly could result in a disaster.

[sironside]

^^^^^ THANK YOU!!!

I just downloaded and am testing out this BACKER program.

Looks to be EXACTLY what I was looking for!!

Really appreciate the help! Thanks again!

[liquidsmoke]

Interested to know how you got on with this? I'm looking to do the same thing... Feedback appreciated!