Topic: My Wallet backup to USB drive script (Read 900 times)
better do some than nothing
I can't say that it's the best method for anyone. But some backup is better than none.
Because a USB stick is a good backup medium? 
I have been playing with several different coins. Seems there are a dozen new ones every day.
To backup my wallets I could go to every single %APPDATA%\somecoin folder and save the wallet.dat or launch every wallet and click backup.
I decided instead of spending several minutes I only wanted to spend 1 minute backing up my wallets to a USB drive so I wrote a little batch file.
I welcome comments and improvements.
Instructions:
Save as BackupWallets.cmd (or whatever you'd like) on the USB drive you want to use for backup.
Double click the new cmd
Features:
Supports backup of multiple wallets from multiple computers on the same USB (creates a folder for wallets from each computer)
Keeps a log of the last backup computername-lastbackup.txt
Requires:
ROBOCOPY (part of Windows 7 +)
To backup my wallets I could go to every single %APPDATA%\somecoin folder and save the wallet.dat or launch every wallet and click backup.
I decided instead of spending several minutes I only wanted to spend 1 minute backing up my wallets to a USB drive so I wrote a little batch file.
I welcome comments and improvements.
Code:
@echo off
cd /d %~dp0
mkdir %COMPUTERNAME%_WALLETS
ROBOCOPY %APPDATA% %COMPUTERNAME%_WALLETS wallet.dat /S /TEE /LOG:%COMPUTERNAME%-LastBackup.txt
cd /d %~dp0
mkdir %COMPUTERNAME%_WALLETS
ROBOCOPY %APPDATA% %COMPUTERNAME%_WALLETS wallet.dat /S /TEE /LOG:%COMPUTERNAME%-LastBackup.txt
Instructions:
Save as BackupWallets.cmd (or whatever you'd like) on the USB drive you want to use for backup.
Double click the new cmd
Features:
Supports backup of multiple wallets from multiple computers on the same USB (creates a folder for wallets from each computer)
Keeps a log of the last backup computername-lastbackup.txt
Requires:
ROBOCOPY (part of Windows 7 +)
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