Archive for November, 2005

Christmas List

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Lisa:
??? (I wound up getting everything thus far)

Jared:
$
Best Buy Gift Cards
Circuit City Gift Cards
Game Stop Gift Cards
EB Games Gift Cards
Ebay Gift Cards
[Insert electronic store here] Gift Cards
Xbox 360 Live Gold Starter Kit
Xbox 360 Wireless Controller
Xbox 360 Hard Drive
Xbox 360 Memory Unit

Post a comment anonymously if you are actually getting one of these things so nobody gets the same thing!

Firefox 1.5

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Firefox
Firefox 1.5 is now out! It’s not even on the mozilla home page yet! Get it now!

Free and Easy Daily Backup Solution

Friday, November 18th, 2005

Update Read comments from user MWare below if you are having any trouble

So I wanted an easy and free way to backup my source code everyday. Well if you run Windows NT and have an Internet connection to download a copy of 7-zip you most certainly can backup your files regularly with unique filenames containing the date and time they were created - something that was a must for me. It helps if you have your source structured in a way that it all resides in a central location such as:

M:\XYZ Software\Source\Project A\
M:\XYZ Software\Source\Project B\
M:\XYZ Software\Source\Project C\

This way we can create a backup folder in the XYZ folder such as:

M:\XYZ Software\Source_Backup\

Then in XYZ Software place a copy of the 7za.exe file you downloaded and a batch file with the following code:

View the original version here (11/8/2005)

Every time this batch file is run from now it will generate a file in the Source_Backup folder like:

M:\XYZ Software\Source_Backup\2005-11-17-PM-11-04-Archive.zip

View version 2 here (3/15/2006)

This generates .7z files instead of .zip like listed below and is multithreaded for improved performance on multicore/multiprocessor machines. If you have a single core/CPU machine you may want to remvove the “-mmt=on” portion of the last line.

With the AM/PM setup this way when you sort by filename you will have your archives in the correct chronological order. Next simply schedule a task in Scheduled Tasks to run this batch file everyday at a given time. There you have it. Your own automated backup system. You could even add extra commands for AES encryption and then back it up off-site with FTP! Ah good old command line interface!