How to make a Mirrored Backup with Robocopy on Windows

XCOPY was always my friend, it has some great memory management features. However it required scripting to get anything like a mirror of a directory structure, and it didn’t have shortcut features of copying only the changed part of a file. Enter Robocopy (Wikipedia), yay! This is a Microsoft command-line utility (free) that comes in [...]

June 30, 2008 • Tags: , , , , • Posted in: Windows • No Comments

Minimum Computing Environment – Windows Edition

For someone who wantes a minimum (low-cost) computing environment with Windows, here are the recommendations.Total about $1,600 with shipping and tax. Have to shop at Amazon, Dell, and Ebay to get the best prices (but it is worth it for the savings, cannot get what you want at one place and cannot get best prices [...]

June 30, 2008 • Tags: , , , • Posted in: Hardware • No Comments