Automatic Backups
Directory Compare if often used in a friendly
interactive way, but it can be also a tool for automatic backups
to be started
- by clicking in a shortcut in your desktop,
- using a menu,
- when the Windows session starts (by putting a shortcut in
the StartUp submenu),
- when the Windows session ends (by means of programs like
my own Folders: see Other
programs by the same author),
- by means of the at
command under NT,
- as a programmed task under Windows 98,
- etc.
In all cases you will have to enter a command
line with the program file specification and some options.
The easiest way is as follows:
- Prepare in the usual interactive way the kind of copy you
want to repeat later once and again (including the
desired Source and Target,
as well as all the remaining options).
- Check that the settings work as expected.
- Save the settings to a .dcp file.Say
its file specification is c:\backups\saveprog.dcp.
- Select the way to start the automatic task an enter the
appropriate command line. For
instance,
"c:\Program Files\Directory
Compare\DirCmp.exe" c:\backups\saveprog.dcp /u /q