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Acroplex
02-16-2003, 04:06 PM
Preferably free :D

I've been having a lot of email loss with Eudora, that somehow decides to set me 4 months back each time (my archiving skills are that bad).

So I need to automate the task of archiving files via a task scheduler.

Any good pointers?

Thanks!

XTStrike
02-16-2003, 04:16 PM
there is a task scheduler built into Windows 2000/XP,

Start > Settings > Control Panel > Scheduled Tasks

If it is files you want to backup you can look into using xcopy to copy the files you want to backup to another directory, put the commands in a batch file and execute it whenever you feel you need to.

Hope this helps

Acroplex
02-16-2003, 04:17 PM
I will give that a try; I was more looking into a higher level task manager. What is the syntax of xcopy for archiving folders? I want to be able to append a timestamp :D