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How do you backup you data. For me it is a smal .BAT script that traverses my directories and copies over any changed files. It is really quite simple that is built around the XCOPY command. I basically have a command such as the following to backup my audio book directory:

xcopy C:\audiobook E:\audiobook /D /E /V /I /F /R /Y

This requires me to know exactly where I download or change information on disk. Because I surely don't want to do this across my entire disk drive. It'd be a system hog.

For the average home user, you really should think about backup software to do this type of work for you. To start, you can take a look at a recent article that evaluated 5 new backup software applications to make backup and recovery much easier.

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