Backup to Pen Drive and vice versa

[Ggalla1779]

Hi all

Recently I almost got burned by my laptop hard drive acting up... this gave me an idea about work backup.

How would I copy a hard drive folder say _Work to a USB pen drive.....or copy only what had changed? Suppose I could use date created?

Not sure how I would detect a pen drive that had just been plugged in though

Any thoughts??

George

[Asgorath]

make a .rar each day and copy to several disks or use visual source safe.

[Ggalla1779]

i would like to automate it....every time I plug in pendrive it backs up adat in that folder where it can..... and same when I go home to main dev machine.... so I would have backup in synch

ie no thought required!!!

[Asgorath]

Every minute or so check if a new drive being added , your pen drive.

[Ggalla1779]

how do I do that ?? The copying I think I have covered

[ProphetBeal]

i would like to automate it....every time I plug in pendrive it backs up adat in that folder where it can..... and same when I go home to main dev machine.... so I would have backup in synch

ie no thought required!!!

You can use the code that i provided

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=450239

and to automate it well off the top of my head i would say that your app would need to reside on the pen drive and have it set to autoplay when the device is plugged in. The only other thing you would need is a way for the app to determine which machine its running again (IE by using the machine name)

[Ggalla1779]

thats clever you turned problem on its head...I didnt think to put the app on the pen drive

Will give it a bash