Breaking Par Consulting

Here at Breaking Par, we make daily backups of all our customer's HTML files to a backup machine. The backup was done through a Windows batch file using the XCOPY command to copy all the files that had been modified. We have been doing this for a long time without much thought. Recently, we took a look at the directories and noticed there was extra files in the backup subdirectory that didn't exist in the main directory. After some research, we determined that the files were deleted in the main directory and never deleted in the subdirectory. After a little research, we were able to figure out how to get a true backup using only Windows batch files. All these statements will go into a windows batch file (extension .bat) that is scheduled through the Windows scheduler (you could also use the Windows "at" command to schedule the task, but the scheduler provides a graphical interface to scheduled tasks). The program is scheduled on the backup server. The first statement connects to the production server by mapping a network drive.