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One of my first batch files helped me to back up regularly

I remember writing tons of batch files to easily concatenate hundreds of text files into larger text files before using DTS to import them into SQL. We used these batch files for email campaigns, data importing, etc.

One of my very first batch files was an extremely simple back-up “utility” which backed up my working directories via xcopy. I could never remember to back up on time, and I hated every piece of backup software we had in-house so I used task scheduler to fire this batch file every single day.

@ECHO OFF

ECHO           COPYRIGHT COLIN DEVROE
ECHO.

ECHO  Backing up your vital data.....
ECHO.
C:
xcopy C:ProjectsFlash F:backupprojectsflash /e /y /w /i
ECHO  Scripts Folder
ECHO.
xcopy C:ProjectsScripts F:backupprojectsscripts /e /y /i
ECHO  Mics_Pictures
ECHO.
xcopy C:ProjectsMics_pictures F:backupprojectsmics_pictures /e /y /i
ECHO Miscellanious
ECHO.
xcopy C:Projectsmiscellanious F:backupprojectsmiscellanious /e /y /i
ECHO.
ECHO MyDocuments
C:
xcopy C:\"My Documents\" F:backupprojectsmydocuments /e /y /i
ECHO.
ECHO Finished Backing Up - FLASH,SCRIPTS,MICS_PICTURES,MISCELLANIOUS,MYDOCUMENTS
ECHO.
ECHO  You may now close this window
ECHO.

I left in the misspelling of miscellaneous, I have no shame. Again, it is very simple, but it bridged me into using batch files to do simple, yet tedious tasks quickly and easily.

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