10 replies to this topic

[allknowing2012]

I have been using xcopy to back stuff up to a thumb drive. What are others doing?

Full backups using something else or perhaps a simple script?

 

Anyone care to share?

 

 

[DDH69]

I use Aomei Backupper and take an image of the entire machine to a USB 3 HDD.  By doing this I can always go back to a known working point, not just known working tables.  It takes about 10 minutes to do, and I do it periodically dependant on how much is changing. I certainly take an image before I do anything significant, ie new VP version, change PinMAME, etc.

[jpsalas]

To keep a copy of many files/folders on another drive I use robocopy. It is a standard windows program, and it is very nice.

I use it to make a copy of my working visual pinball folder to another drive, like this:

 

robocopy d:\Visual_Pinball f:\Visual_Pinball /MIR

 

d: is my working disk, and f: is the external one.

/MIR means "mirror". This is, it will make an exact copy with all the files and folders, copying newer files and deleting the files on the destination folder that you have deleted in the source folder.

The good thing with robocopy is that only copies newer files by default, so its usage is very easy, much like xcopy, but more powerful.

 

Just do a search in google for more examples of how to use it, but for home the /MIR is all I use.

[RustyCardores]

Windows10 has a 'File History' function that operates in a very similar way to Apple's Time Machine, by storing files to an external drive. (I think I might have to be an external HDD and not just a USB thumb drive)

 

To date I've simply plugged in an external HDD and manually copied things over, but since my machine runs Win10 I think I will have a look at this File History thing.

Edited by RustyCardores, 12 May 2016 - 02:03 AM.

[gtxjoe]

I created this batch file that uses xcopy a while back.  It backs up vp related files and the VP and Vpinmame registries.  Just save it to a bat file and put it in the root directory.  C drive in my case and it copies everything to D: drive

SET XCOPY_OPTIONS=/B /E /Y /K /D /C
 
SET BACKUP_FOLDER=_backup_pinball_2016
SET HP_SRC=hyperpin
SET PX_SRC=pinballx
SET VP_SRC=Visual Pinball
SET FP_SRC=Future Pinball
SET IPAC_SRC=winIPAC
SET VPM_SRC=vpinmame

mkdir "d:\%BACKUP_FOLDER%"
 
mkdir "d:\%BACKUP_FOLDER%\%VPM_SRC%"
REGEDIT /E "d:\%BACKUP_FOLDER%\%VPM_SRC%\%VPM_SRC%.reg" "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Freeware\Visual PinMame"
REGEDIT /E "d:\%BACKUP_FOLDER%\%VPM_SRC%\Visual Pinball.reg" "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Visual Pinball"
REGEDIT /E "d:\%BACKUP_FOLDER%\%VPM_SRC%\Future Pinball.reg" "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Future Pinball"
 
 
mkdir "d:\%BACKUP_FOLDER%\%HP_SRC%"
xcopy "%HP_SRC%" "d:\%BACKUP_FOLDER%\%HP_SRC%" %XCOPY_OPTIONS%
 
mkdir "d:\%BACKUP_FOLDER%\%VP_SRC%"
xcopy "%VP_SRC%" "d:\%BACKUP_FOLDER%\%VP_SRC%" %XCOPY_OPTIONS%
 
mkdir "d:\%BACKUP_FOLDER%\%FP_SRC%"
xcopy "%FP_SRC%" "d:\%BACKUP_FOLDER%\%FP_SRC%" %XCOPY_OPTIONS%

mkdir "d:\%BACKUP_FOLDER%\%PX_SRC%"
xcopy "%PX_SRC%" "d:\%BACKUP_FOLDER%\%PX_SRC%" /B /E /D
 
mkdir "d:\%BACKUP_FOLDER%\%IPAC_SRC%"
xcopy "%IPAC_SRC%" "d:\%BACKUP_FOLDER%\%IPAC_SRC%" %XCOPY_OPTIONS%

PAUSE

[Carny_Priest]

I use Windows 10 File History to an external HDD. As it comes with Win 10 the price is right.


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[kruge99]

I use EaseUS Todo Backup Free 9.1 for backing up my drives to a NAS.  I learned a tough lesson after my pinball artwork drive died and had to spend a small fortune to have the files recovered for me.  In addition to the 'working' drive I now I try to have to mirror copies on hand as backups.  Also, a nice free feature is the ability of Todo backup to properly migrate to an SSD drive if you need that feature.

 

 

Best Regards,

Kruge99

[STAT]

I use the internal Backup ( Win 7 ) and make weekly complete System Backup (when new Tables are in)

Edited by STAT, 12 May 2016 - 10:15 AM.

[Johngreve]

As for the most part I am as dumb as a box of rocks when it comes to most of this, I ended up taking a friends advice and bought a Hard drive duplicator for $35 and a spare HD. The "source" drive goes in one bay and the "destination" drive goes in the other. Press a button and you have a duplicate drive in about two hours, in my case.

I'll have to admit it's a pain to remove the HD frequently to do this but it has saved my bacon more than once and well worth it to me.

[RustyCardores]

I use EaseUS Todo Backup Free 9.1 for backing up my drives to a NAS.  I learned a tough lesson after my pinball artwork drive died and had to spend a small fortune to have the files recovered for me.  In addition to the 'working' drive I now I try to have to mirror copies on hand as backups.  Also, a nice free feature is the ability of Todo backup to properly migrate to an SSD drive if you need that feature.

 

 

Best Regards,

Kruge99

 

Thanks for the pointer to this. I just recently got very fast internet with unlimited data, so I have this automagically backing up to my Google Drive ($2/month for 100GB).  It's a nice "peace of mind" knowing that I now have an off-site backup.  If my cab was to ever kark itself, I honestly wouldn't know where to begin if I had to redo things from scratch. It's been a constant evolution of tables, scripts and tweaks that could not be easily repeated.

[gigalula]

I use "Aconis true Image"  so that way I have a full backup image that include everythings and it's way faster then any file to file backup It take me less then 2 minutes to back my SSD 120  and less then 5 for SSD 500... It create a simple backup images file .TIB  "compressed if option selected" and offer the great possibility to mount backup image as drive to recover single or multi files or simply restore full backup if you ever experience crash or hdd fail.  for me it's a complete and fast solution and a good compromise if you don't use one of the multiple cloud solutions flaoting arround.