Nero Question
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Have a non technical friend whom I have set Nero Express to perform backups for. It is just their My Documents, Outlook Express and business data files. I have saved the .nri to the Desktop and never thought about it again. Until a couple of weeks ago after a crash. They had the machine rebuilt and then restored from the CD. They had missing files. So I had a greater look into it and found something weird. When Nero Express scans the disk files when it starts the .nri it only notices files that have been removed. If I remove a file or folder it tells me they are missing and I have the chance to remove it. If I add files or folders to the directories that are backed up they don't get picked up by Nero Express. Does anyone know of a fix or work around for this? Alternately do you know of some freeware that can backup to CD and also finds new files added to the directories that need to be backed up? Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So i had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
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Have a non technical friend whom I have set Nero Express to perform backups for. It is just their My Documents, Outlook Express and business data files. I have saved the .nri to the Desktop and never thought about it again. Until a couple of weeks ago after a crash. They had the machine rebuilt and then restored from the CD. They had missing files. So I had a greater look into it and found something weird. When Nero Express scans the disk files when it starts the .nri it only notices files that have been removed. If I remove a file or folder it tells me they are missing and I have the chance to remove it. If I add files or folders to the directories that are backed up they don't get picked up by Nero Express. Does anyone know of a fix or work around for this? Alternately do you know of some freeware that can backup to CD and also finds new files added to the directories that need to be backed up? Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So i had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
Hi Michael, Have you thought of using ROBOCOPY and MKISOFS (windows version obviously) in a batch file? ROBOCOPYXP (from the WIndows resource kit) has the /mir option which will do what you want. Just whack it in a batch file on their desktop and be done with it. And if they want it burnt to CD as well, the Windows resource kit includes CDBURN and DVDBURN command line ISO burning tools that could be used in a batch as well. Cheers, Chris.