Batch file Backup Utility

For long I have been using a simple batch file to keep backup of important content on my PC. It is a very simple & flexible solution and you don’t have to install anything. However, the batch file is using a command line compressing utility called FBZIP you can download it from here, which you have to keep along with batch file.

You can run the bath file manually or schedule it according to your backup strategy

Following is the code for batch file.

@echo off

:: variables

set backup_drive=D:\Backup

set backupcmd=xcopy /s /c /d:12-31-2007 /e /h /i /r /y

set Fbackupcmd=xcopy /s /c /e /h /i /r /y

 

echo ### Backing up Desktop contents…

%backupcmd% “C:\Documents and Settings\…\Desktop” “%backup_drive%\Desktop”

echo ### Backing up My Docs

%Fbackupcmd% “C:\Documents and Settings\…..\My Documents” “%backup_drive%\MyDocs”

echo ### Compressing Backup Folder…

fbzip.exe -a -p -r “%backup_drive%\Backup_%date:~-4,4%%date:~-7,2%%date:~0,2%.zip” “%backup_drive%”

echo Backup Complete!

@pause

In following line, date is used to check differences of target and destination folders only after specified date.
set backupcmd=xcopy /s /c /d:12-31-2007 /e /h /i /r /y

If you want to keep it simple then remove the date part (as follows), it will just check all differences regardless of date stamp.

set backupcmd=xcopy /s /c /d /e /h /i /r /y