One of the things that has been hugely frustrating about my move to Vista is that the backup tool is “dumbed down”. It only copies files it wants to copy and it requires that you backup C: whether you want to or not. All I wanted to do was schedule a daily backup from my data drive D: to my archive drive V: – I want any type of file copied…just a basic mirror type copy. Apparently this is impossible in the standard windows backup application.
Enter Robocopy – a small command-line utility from Microsoft (included in Vista) that does exactly this. Robocopy can take a source and destination and perform a mirror copy without a problem – and since it’s a command-line application, you can schedule it to run whenever you’d like. It has tons of options to exclude certain files/directories based on name, attribute, date, etc – but the basic command to do a mirror copy is just this:
robocopy d:\ v:\ /MIR
Nifty huh?
Robocopy – Microsoft’s Little Gem
One of the things that has been hugely frustrating about my move to Vista is that the backup tool is “dumbed down”. It only copies files it wants to copy and it requires that you backup C: whether you want to or not. All I wanted to do was schedule a daily backup from my data drive D: to my archive drive V: – I want any type of file copied…just a basic mirror type copy. Apparently this is impossible in the standard windows backup application.
Enter Robocopy – a small command-line utility from Microsoft (included in Vista) that does exactly this. Robocopy can take a source and destination and perform a mirror copy without a problem – and since it’s a command-line application, you can schedule it to run whenever you’d like. It has tons of options to exclude certain files/directories based on name, attribute, date, etc – but the basic command to do a mirror copy is just this:
robocopy d:\ v:\ /MIR
Nifty huh?
Nerd Test Results
I saw a link to a “nerd test” while reading over the old RSS feeds from some fellow Knoxville bloggers (Mike & Dylan) and I had to take it. Apparently, I’m a Nerd God – but I’m not sure why…my answers weren’t really that “out there” for most of the questions… Of course, the fact that I don’t see anything “wrong” with my answers is probably part of the issue…or maybe I’m just that l33t.
My score on The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test:Modern, Cool Nerd
(60 % Nerd, 52% Geek, 43% Dork)
For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia. A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one. A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of:
Modern, Cool Nerd.
Nerds didn’t use to be cool, but in the 90’s that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn’t quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and “geek is chic.” The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)!
