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Robocopy backup using Task Scheduler


Backup is a simple word that has a very good significant value in today’s digital world.

Unattended backup or automated backup is a good strategy, so the user or the whoever is managing the backup won't need to manually trigger the backup.

No data backup is a head-on strategy, that leads to catastrophe.

Backup is very, very important in today’s digital world. You will never know when a data disaster will strike.

The whole laptop will be lost, the hard drive will fail without any sign, a virus might corrupt the whole system or just simple mistake to overwrite or delete a data. All this scenario requires a backup rescue to recover the data.

Robocopy is a built-in command in Windows that does a pretty awesome job to backup or copy files.

Using Windows task scheduler, robocopy and Vbscript will create an important task to backup data.

How the three tools will be used, to backup data?

Robocopy – to backup or copy the files
Vbscript – to hide the robocopy in the background while Robocopy is copying data
TaskScheduler – this will kick-off the job unattended so the task will be created and backup or the task will auto start

Vbscript still works okay even in Windows 10.

Here’s the VBscript: (Ex. Name: Backup_PC1.vbs)

‘Start copy here

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell" )
WshShell.Run chr(34) & "C:\Temp\SyncRoboCopy_Toy\batch_sync1.bat" & Chr(34), 0
Set WshShell = Nothing

‘End copy here

Save or copy the above script to notepad with “.vbs” file extension, example: Backup_PC1.vbs

C:\Temp\SyncRoboCopy_Toy\ -- change this path where the batch file is located

Contents of batch_sync1.bat:

REM Starts Here ===

@echo off
robocopy /e  /r:2 /w:2 "F:\Sales_Data" "\\backup_server\Sales_Data\PC1_ Drive_Backup"
Exit

REM Ends Here ====

Copy and paste above to a notepad and name it: “batch_sync1.bat” or any name as desired.

Now set a Task Scheduler to run the VBScript and “batch_sync1.bat” will run in the background and it will just exit nicely once copying or backup is done. Awesome..

Batch_Sync.bat to be set on Task scheduler.

REM Start copy here

@echo off
cscript Backup_PC1.vbs
Exit

REM End copy here

Copy and paste the above file and name it as “batch_sync.bat”.

After setting up the task scheduler and placing all the files on specified locations and updating the script location on the script, give it a dry run and manually run the task scheduler.

Depending on the load of the network and the files being copied, these two components will determine how long the job will run. Or just try some light or small files then check the destination folder and see whether the files are there.

If files were backup or copied properly, then I guess a backup is available and it will always be ready when it’s needed. Of course, do take precaution that backup is safe, and it will be ready when it’s needed most.

Cheers!

Till next time.


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