So I found out today that Robocopy comes native with Vista! W00t!
Previously I've been using the old windows xp copy of ntbackup.exe, but that was a bit painful, so thought I'd give robocopy a go. It worked pretty well, except for my profile directory. Then it barfed all over the place and I had to fuss around with it to get it to do backups of well-buried stuff like Google Earth's myplaces.kml file.
So anyway I have a bunch of command line options that I can script, which will make future backups to this backup disk much quicker.
Now if only I had a bigger external hard drive that actually *fitted* everything I want to backup, and a usb hub so I don't have to ferret around the back of the computer to get the computer to recognise it...
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