User Interface – it matters

Further to my post yesterday talking about the absence of any regard for user-friendliness in the design of the User Interface for Robocopy, I want to expand on and emphasise the brilliance of function in the utility itself.

As a simple backup (mirroring) solution I don’t think that Robocopy could be beaten for minimal use of resources and speed.

Run it to copy a directory with the switches /S and /XO and you’ve got incremental copying of a directory and all its (populated) subdirectories.

I use it as a home (where some web programming work is done) solution in case of disk failure.

One simple script to copy the appropriate directory, scheduled to run every evening, and I’m backed up. No errors or asking me whether I really want to copy a particular file, just simple, no fuss execution.