Comments on: Backup USB Drive on Insertion

By: chucklehead

chucklehead — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:55:12 +0000

I tried to get this running on Windows 7 but no luck. Microsoft decided to amputate the autoplay USB options for Windows 7 in an effort to protect people from scary malware.

If anyone has a solution that works on Windows 7 I’m sure lots of people would appreciate it.

By: Amar Jain

Amar Jain — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:12:32 +0000

Guies I am in urgent need of this solution.
What I want is that as soon as my one document gets modified, it should get coppied in my USB drive from pc. So, detailed command for inserting something like this?
Let me make it more clear. Basically from 11th of Nov., I have to use computer in my exam for writing my exams. So what I will do is that I will save one file in my computer, and another in pen drive after every few minutes to insure that if my data gets lost from one place, I have it on other place. So if an automated script can do this job of coppying the file as soon as it gets modified and saved again, then things will become easier for me. But please, detailed reply as I understand the dos commands but not good at it.

By: amatbrewer

amatbrewer — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:51:48 +0000

I found a variation to what Kjetil suggested. I moved the backup.bat file to the target folder and changed the autorun.inf to run it rather than the one on the memory stick.
Now it only backs up to computers with the backup.bat in the correct folder.

[autorun]
action=Backup
open=C:\backupFolder\backup.bat
label=Backup
includeRuntimeComponents=True

{this goes in the backup.bat file}
rem backup all files & folders in the local directory
xcopy “*” C:\backupFolder /E/Y/I/M
Echo Backup Complete

By: tim from Radio Clash

tim from Radio Clash — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:59:40 +0000

Anyway I can make this fire when I insert the flash drive rather than on click?

Otherwise the xcopy example seems to be working for me, thanks!

By: Rexy

Rexy — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:51:49 +0000

A correction to the last post. Adding /W makes you have to press a key, any key. Not W in particular.

By: Rexy

Rexy — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:50:13 +0000

I found this very useful, thanks!

A tip especially to Kjetil; Just add /W to the xcopy line along with the other xcopy settings. That makes you have to press W in order to make it start copying. So that you do not accidentally backup when you do not want to.

By: Justin Bussell

Justin Bussell — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:53:24 +0000

^anyway to make it backup more than one folder?

By: Justin Bussell

Justin Bussell — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:53:03 +0000

Howdi, for some reason my script only backups a folder called “other” and not any other folder. Script is
@echo off
echo ——————-
echo Removable Device Automatic Backup
echo ——————-
echo No Rights Reserved, do whatever you want with this.
xcopy “*” “h:\removablebackup\” /Y /E /R
echo Backup Complete!
Pause.

Autorun script is
[autorun]
action=Backup
open=backup.bat
label=JBussell
includeRuntimeComponents=True

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:00:47 +0000

my autorun.inf doesn’t work and it’s driving me bananas!

The dialog box appears… so it’s not an XP error. But all of my autorun options don’t appear in the dialog box – ie. name of the drive, name of my .bat file, icon… nothing!

I’m at the end of my rope…. help??

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