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If you are like me your TR folder has become very important, therefore backing up your TR folder and it's contents becomes important as well. You can to this all in on fell swoop. And it copies any attachments you may have within the folder TR folder. Here's what you've gotta do:
1. Open Notepad,
2. Add the line of code below with your source and destination directory, the * means copy all files /E /Y means copy sub-directories and do it without asking me to verify that I really want to over lay existing files.
3. Save the file as a BAT file, for example your-file-name.BAT

Walla, your done. I keep mine on my desk top, so that when I'm done I simply double click on the BAT file and all my files get copied to a backup drive on my computer.

This little trick gives me a little extra peace of mind knowing my data is on 2 physical hard drives, in case one bites the dust.

XCOPY c:\source-directory\*.* d:\destination\directory /E /Y

Hope this helps

Would this be an idea for a user defined button/menu item?

At present I have my files on my PC. On going home I close down TR, do 'Window' E, confirm sort on date to place the files at the top, highlight and right click, select 'send to', pick my mem stick (normally E:). By doing this I have a backup and I have it available whenever I can access ANY computer. I also have TR available on the stick.

By having a configurable button it would be more convenient.

Bart

I use a batch file for my TR data file backup too.
Thank you for the /Y tip. I had forgotten all about that xcopy parameter. Now, thanks to your tip, I can save myself some unnecessary confirmations when running the batch file.

I tried the batch file:
XCOPY F:\program files\ThinkingRock\*.* F:\ThinkingRock Backups\directory /E /Y
and get an error message of:
invalid number of parameters

What am I doing wrong?
I'm using Windows XP

Thanks.

Try typing xcopy/? I think you need to specify the name of the source and the destination. Your source is *.* so you destination would be *.*.

I think you want to copy your data, right? You seem to be copying your ThinkingRock program. If you do a File > SaveAs then you will see where your data is filed. You will also want to save your configuration file "ReviewActions.xml" which is in the same place.

I have written a small AutoIt script that I run automatically at logon (via shortcut in Startup). The script makes a backup of the TR data file into a predefined backup directory and gives it a name that reflects the date. The script then deletes the oldest backup file until there are no more than 20 files in the backup directory.

If anyone is interested, I will post the code.

Yes please.

Good tip, thank you.

I use Windows Live Sync to synchronize my Tr data between multiple PC's. That way I'm always up to date and never have to transfer files manually. One of the machines that is in the synchronization group also runs a client for an online backup service, so I end up with multiple versioned backups of my data every day. Not that I've had to use that yet.

I've been looking for a good GTD software program as I have been starting to implement GTD in my life. Several features are important, but being able to back them up is extremely important to me. How could it be a trusted system if it could be wiped out with a single wrong command or hardware failure? I would worry if I didn't know I had backups in a safe place.

I'm just about to venture into the world of ThinkingRock and this will be my backup system.

Using Syncback (free version) to set up several automatically running tasks:
1) Backup every night into folders designated by the name of the day (Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
2) Weekly backup into a weekly backup folder.
3) I tend to do another weekly backup to the other installed hard drive (2 installed on my computer.)
4) I like to do a 30, 90, 180-day back up too.

Using an online storage:
1) back up the weekly backup from my hard drive (Some can be set to do only incremental saves and keep prior versions.)


Once I set up this system, I can forget about it unless I have an issue. A little involved or crazy? Maybe... but this assists with me trusting this system to safely hold all the information I put into it.

Hi ajbritton,

Yes please, I would like a copy too.

Thanks

Hello pardes,

i do not know if you are interested in this yet, but:

you have used fiilenames with a space-character in it. so you have to write it in quotes:

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palmtreouser

The version for members now does automatic backup in a folder and at a frequency specified by the user. See demo http://www.trgtd.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=130:recback&catid=50:curmemdemos&Itemid=84

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ThinkingRock Analyst and Tester