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Windows XP: VSS backup to rotated drives via shadowspawn and robocopy #

Daily backup routine for an ancient Q&A program and database which is always open:

1. Copy shadowspawn.exe (depends on Visual C++ runtime) and robocopy.exe (found in the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools; preinstalled in Vista onwards) to %WINDIR%\system32\.

2. Edit and save this batch script to desired location:

   for /f %%x in ('date /t') do set today=%%x
   if '%today%=='Mon shadowspawn C:\QA4 Q: robocopy q:\ S:\QA4 /B /MIR
   if '%today%=='Tue shadowspawn C:\QA4 Q: robocopy q:\ T:\QA4 /B /MIR
   if '%today%=='Wed shadowspawn C:\QA4 Q: robocopy q:\ U:\QA4 /B /MIR
   if '%today%=='Thu shadowspawn C:\QA4 Q: robocopy q:\ V:\QA4 /B /MIR
   if '%today%=='Fri shadowspawn C:\QA4 Q: robocopy q:\ W:\QA4 /B /MIR
   if '%today%=='Sat shadowspawn C:\QA4 Q: robocopy q:\ X:\QA4 /B /MIR
   if '%today%=='Sun shadowspawn C:\QA4 Q: robocopy q:\ Y:\QA4 /B /MIR

3. Create a scheduled task to run the batch script daily without a cmd.exe popup.

/windows | Apr 18, 2021

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