Dynamic/smart backing up of folders to a DVD? (seems vague, but many details inside)?

I believe the answer to your question is a batch file. It is free and it does everything you mention. It would look something like this ( but longer) You would exclude a subfolder by listing the folders you want separately and just not listing the subfolder.

Xcopy c:\sourcefolder d:\destinationfolder /s /e /d /c xcopy c:\sourcefolder d:\destinationfolder /s /e /d /c echo echo job finished the /s says recurse through subfolders the /e says get empty subfolders too the /d says copy folders from the destination only if they are newer than the file already on the destination. This would be irrelevant backing up to a new DVD because there would be no files already there. It saves a LOT of time if you are backing up to another hard drive.

The /c says to continue. Keep copying even if an error occurs. You can use the windows task scheduler to call this at a specific time or you can kick it off manually.

Obviously, if you automate it, you will need to remember to place a new blank DVD in your optical drive and make it ready. You can use your Outlook to remind yourself to prepare the DVD.

I want to have a program that I can set up to back things up to a DVD based on feeding it folders. I can somehow 'save' my setup so that I don't have to tell it what folders to do every time. Likely the easiest condition to meet--I just don't want to be dragging the same folders into the program every single time, and/or risk forgetting a folder or something.

The program must remember excluded subfolders. For example, I want to backup my Opera browser's stuff, but not the folder containing the cache. So if I give the program my Opera folder (and it will likely add all subfolders), and then I go in and remove the cache folder, and save that setup (see condition #1), I want that subfolder to be excluded when I load it.

Perhaps most importantly, it has to be dynamic. The saved setup will tell the program what folders, but AT BACKUP TIME it burns to the DVD what is in those folders at that time. In other words, if the program doesn't do it dynamically (like with Nero, which I've tried), when you give it a folder, it'll take note of all the files in there, and then when you save it, that's what gets saved.

Now, the next time I want to do a backup, if there are files in that folder that weren't there before, the program will never notice because it doesn't search the folder again--it just looks for the files it found the first time. I need the program to automatically 'refresh' folder contents each time, so that it doesn't miss new files nor try to burn files that might have been intentionally deleted in the meantime (Nero actually can do this refreshing, but it has to be done manually, and it forgets excluded subfolders). So, that's what I need.

Anyone know of a program that can meet these requirements?

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