Ola Lindberg

Today I managed to get plate number 200! Check it out!

I usually use web based disposable e-mail adresses from Mailinator to avoid giving away my adress. I have noticed that some companies don’t let you register using a Mailinator adress. Today when I registered to download TimeSnapper (classic) I got this funny note.

TimeSnapper funny note when register with a Mailinator address

That made my day ^_^ Easy amused I guess.

I usually use Rsync for my incremental backups but since I moved to Vista it’s a bit of pain to get it working. I tried to install it using both Cygwin and DeltaCopy but couldn’t get it to copy international chars (i.e. åäö) via either Samba or SSH. So I looked into a tool called robocopy which is included in Vista (you can get it for XP as well). It worked fine and was easy to use.

To mirror a folder from one folder to another I put the following to a bat file (all on one row):

robocopy "D:\Pictures"
"\\MyOtherComputer\Backup\Pictures" /MIR

I did some different bat files for all folders I wanted to backup. At last I created one bat file that calls all the other. It looks like:

call BackupPictures.bat
call BackupCode.bat

There are loads of settings to customize your backups. For example to avoid copying desktop.ini files add /XF desktop.ini just after /MIR in the above example. Look into the robocopy help for more configuration options.