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Robocopy GUI

Hey hey hey, I just found this utility that makes using Robocopy faster and easier! If you've never used Robocopy before, I'd recommend using this tool to learn how. You can hover over all the options, as shown below, to popup a tooltip describing what each one does. You can then run the script...

Posted to Matt Williamson's Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 02-19-2009
Hyper-V VM Backup Script Batch File

This will shutdown your virtual machines, copy the .vhd virtual hard disk files (not snapshots) to a backup location, and then power your virtual machines back on. Please view the ReadMe file or the following blog post for detailed instructions: http://www.bunkerhollow.com/blogs/matt/archive/2008/09...

Posted to Software (FileGallery) by Matt Williamson on 09-24-2008
Hyper-V VM Backup Script Batch File

This will shutdown your virtual machines, copy the .vhd virtual hard disk files (not snapshots) to a backup location, and then power your virtual machines back on. Install the Windows PowerShell Feature You may need to install Windows PowerShell on your Hyper-V host machine, Server Manager -> Add...

Posted to Matt Williamson's Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 09-24-2008
Backup Trixbox via FTP

After my horrible experience last weekend, I've made backups a top priority while I get my system back online. I found this great tutorial on how to automate a backup schedule for my Trixbox VoIP server and I'm re-iterating it here for future reference. Install the backup/restore module in Trixbox...

Posted to Matt Williamson's Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 06-04-2008
GoDaddy SQL Database Backup and Restore

Through the GoDaddy web interface, there are options to backup or restore your SQL Server databases. The databases are backed up and restored from a folder in the root of your FTP filesystem called '_db_backup'. The unfortunate thing is, you cannot restore a database if it wasn't created...

Posted to Matt Williamson's Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 05-14-2008
Restoring Community Server 2007 from Backup

I have two scripts that run each morning at 4:00am to backup my Community Server website. One of them creates a full backup of the database and the other makes a copy of the \Web directory. Last night, I decided to upgrade to the latest version of Community Server, 2007.1. I just downloaded the new version...

Posted to Matt Williamson's Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 12-29-2007
Accessing Network Shares From A Backup Script

This issue came up this weekend when I was creating a backup script to copy my website files from my webserver to my file server. The problem is the webserver isn't on the domain so it won't be able to authenticate the user who runs the script from the fileserver, and will prompt for a local...

Posted to Matt Williamson's Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 12-09-2007
Robocopy Backup Script Template

Robocopy is a powerful command line tool commonly used for backing up files. It's options go above and beyond the standard COPY and XCOPY tools included with Windows. For pre-Vista users, Robocopy is available in the Windows Resource Kit . For Vista users, Microsoft has decided to include Robocopy...

Posted to Matt Williamson's Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 10-04-2007

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