====== Simple backup procedure for windows (c't bff) ======
Backing up your files should be fast and easy, so that you make a backup every day (or at least weekly if you are lazy and your work is not so important :-\). In the german [[http://www.heise.de/ct/|computer magazine c't]], a simple and efficient backup script was presented, which has some unique features:
  * works on any windows machine, without installing additional software!
  * runs very fast
  * gives a report of the result of the backup

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Setup of the bff.bat script:
  - think where you will store your backups. You need a drive letter to store your backups to. This can be a thumb drive or a network drive. 
  - start notepad, copy-paste the script below into notepad. Change the values of ''Quelle'' and ''Ziel'' to fit your environment.
  - safe the file as bff.bat
  - Here are some ideas on how to run the bff.bat script, from the simple to more sophisticated.
    * Place a link to bff.bat on your desktop
    * Place a link to bff.bat in your autostart script
    * place bff.bat on an external drive, and create an autorun.ini so that bff.bat automatically runs when the drive is plugged in.

Notes:
  * For a more sophisticated backup using rsync see http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/06/09/126/
  * If you don't have windiff on your machine, you can install the [[http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=de&FamilyID=49ae8576-9bb9-4126-9761-ba8011fabf38|Windows XP SP2 Support tools]]

For windows XP machines, here is the script. You can find the zipfile for all windows versions on the [[http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/03/08/160/|c't homepage]]


<code winbatch>
set Quelle="C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen"
set Ziel="D:\Backup\%date%"
set templog="%temp%\temp.log"
;
echo . >>%windir%\backup.log
echo Starte Backup: %date% %time% von %Quelle% nach %Ziel% >>%windir%\backup.log
md %Ziel%
xcopy %Quelle% %Ziel% /m /s /v /c /i /f /h /k /o /x /y >>%windir%\backup.log
echo Starte Überprüfung >>%windir%\backup.log
start /w windiff.exe -Sdx %templog% -T %Ziel% %quelle%
find "different" %templog% >>%windir%\backup.log
echo Fertig >>%windir%\backup.log
start notepad.exe %windir%\backup.log
;
rem Erstellt 2003 von Axel Vahldiek / c't
rem mailto: axv@ctmagazin.de
</code>



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