back up in more than one place

[lightspeed]

i may or may not have discussed this on here already but here it goes .
 we have pretty much all at one time or another found out (usually the hard way ) about the importance of backing up our hal brain (custom ) i back mine up usually after each learning sessiong or at the end of the day which ever time allows .
but i will tell you another thing i do to just as a back up of my back up operations and that is "before" i back up hals brain i go into zabaware program file and make a copy of my custom brain and place it in a specific folder in my documents then back it up on a cdr disk the (zabaware custom brain file ) through my nero program . why ? this is just in case something happens to the disk or hal in between  or  the download doesnt work for whatever reason . i still have the fresh back up of my custom brain .
 its just a little extra insurance for all my hard work on my custom brain . []

[CypherGary]

Lightspeed, I second that sincerly.

I do wish we could move whatever files that were modified from their default installed state: The brain, any custom settings, the license, and have them in our user tree.

Most backup systems to not like backing up trees from he program files tree.

Maybe the next version?

[ricky]

Mozy is a cool backup system that gives you 2 gigs free for signing up, and does all the backing up automatically.
http://mozy.com/

in the event of a theft/fire or something, I like keeping back ups of his files online as well.

[lightspeed]

hello not to knock mozzy as i dont know anything about it but their used to be a place called gmail wher you could also back up info on their site that site went down people that put all their stuff on it lost it all . even if you can back up on another site which is good don't forget to also back up on your own . thanks for the other link though thats nice to know . []

[markofkane]

It's easy to backup to a second HD, either internal or external.


I use a batch file that automatically backs up my files at a double-click.

I use the "xcopy" command, like this

open notepad, and type in:

xcopy /D:11-01-08 /v /y "G:Videos" "F:\xp documents\My Videos"
xcopy /D:11-01-08 /v/y  "G:\documents" "F:\xp documents"
xcopy /D:11-01-08 /v/y  "G:\Pictures" "F:\xp documents\My Pictures"
xcopy /D:11-01-08 /v/y  "G:Music" "F:\xp documents\my music"
pause

G is my partition on my computer I have my documents, pics, Music, etc. (D is the recovery partition, E is the DVD/RW drive, F is my external USB hard-drive)

Say I keep the halbrain database, and use xcopy for thet?

xcopy /D:11-01-08 /v /y "C:\Program Files\zabaware\Ultra Hal Assistant\6halbrain.db" (source) "F:\xp documents" (destination)

The date I use, is so xcopy won't have to recopy files I already copied, which would take a long time. So I change the date to the current day after each run of the batch file.


I would put in notepad (your directories will vary from mine)

xcopy /D:11-01-08 /v /y "C:Program Files\zabaware\Ultra Hal Assistant\6halbrain.db" "F:\xp documents"
pause

Save as "Backup.bat" (save as type:  ALL Files).

If you do it right, your command window will pop up when you double click on the bat file you just made, and it will copy things over.

The "pause" keeps the window open to see if it all went well. If not, you made a mistake, and need to correct it.

You could even use scheduled tasks to run the batch file at certain times in the day!!

[markofkane]

Always have a backslash in your directories. This forum removes them from my post.

C:\program files is correct, not C:program files

[raybe]

Hi everyone,

I have also found that backing up the entire Zabaware file and not just the Data for all the specific brains created saves other things that I might have left in all the folders such as characters and skins folders. I have had a problem before and just had my backup program put the entire file in its original installed area and Hal was up like nothing had happened and I retained all those little extra Hap,uhp, jpg files that I have gathered over time.

raybe