Automatically Copy Files on a Schedule

[bobby.doucett]

Hello. I'm looking for a program that can automatically copy files from one location on my computer to another (ultimately from HDD to NAS storage for media purposes). I know that robo copy exists, but I'm not sure if that can do everything that I would need it to (or if that program even exists).

I would want this to run as a scheduled task, every day or few days. I've tried backup software but it adds the date/time to the folders that it backs up, and I need to have files merged into the same folder structures. If possible I would need something that can look for a file that was created/modified in the past week and only copy that to the new location, and also to "skip" the copy if any of the same file names are detected.

This is used for media. Basically any shows that I have downloaded that are a week old or less, I want them copied to another location which would keep the same folder structure as the original location.

Thank you in advance

 

[punkncat]

Robo Copy is real.

There are several small programs you can download that will actually give you the line code command for robo, or if you are good at that kind of thing the full list of commands is easily found in a search.
The thing to do is use your "tasks" program. Insert the line for the robo command into a "task" and schedule it.

Many of the other backup programs typically have an option to remove the time stamp. (I hate that too)

 

[Eximo]

Scheduled tasks and robocopy basically. What many enterprises use if they don't have access to enterprise class storage management.

Pretty sure Windows also has a backup utility, or it used to.

 

[bobby.doucett]

Robo Copy is real.

There are several small programs you can download that will actually give you the line code command for robo, or if you are good at that kind of thing the full list of commands is easily found in a search.
The thing to do is use your "tasks" program. Insert the line for the robo command into a "task" and schedule it.

Many of the other backup programs typically have an option to remove the time stamp. (I hate that too)

Oh so RoboCopy wouldn't automatically run every day/week/etc on it's own, but I would have to make a windows task to do that?

 

[Eximo]

Something has to start it. Any backup program is going to have a service behind it to execute actions. In this case, Windows has provided both tools.

And, as mentioned, there are tools out there that give you a GUI to create robocopy commands. You will have to encapsulate them in a VB script, Batch file, possibly powershell (which may have it's own options for simple backup jobs)