Teknoids

Recently, some of our older desktops' hard drives have started failing. We've discovered that a lot of our users do not backup their valuable desktop data to our server. There are lots of ways to deal with this: folder redirection, backup-pc, Dantz/EMC Retrospect, etc. However, I wanted something that would be a stop-gap until we could implement a better solution.

Our users use Windows XP and are admins on their local machines. We have a file server; user home directories on the server are mapped to drive H:\ . A reasonable solution to the backup issue is to use a batch file with xcopy commands combined with Windows task scheduler. The difficulty is in teaching users how to install the batch file and configure the Windows task scheduler.

The result was this AutoIT v. 3 script. It might be useful as a example of an approach to writing a simple AutoIT script. It demonstrates some GUI menu functionality, along with reading stdout and stderr, running DOS programs.