How to schedule automatic copy of files to server?

FrankGrimes

I have a PC running Vista Ultimate on it and a server on my home network running Windows Home Server.

I have a Recorded TV Manager program that copies all my media center recorded TV from the PC to the server each night, but that only does recorded TV.

I'd like to do something similar for my downloads folder - i.e. schedule a job to copy the contents and paste them to a folder on the server each night (with option to overwrite or add to what's already in that folder on the server).

I know I can look into just setting my downloads to run straight to a server folder, but sometimes I take the PC with me out of the house so I'd like to continue to have full copies of my downloads on both the PC and the server (from which I access the files on laptop and Xbox360) - is it possible to setup this scheduled transferring of files? Thanks.

cance

create a batch file, then schedule the task

give me the directories from and to, and ill do you up something quick using xcopy or robocopy.

qwertz

MS Synctoy does that as well.

1.4:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E0FC1154-C975-4814-9649-CCE41AF06EB7&displaylang=en

2 (Beta):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c26efa36-98e0-4ee9-a7c5-98d0592d8c52&DisplayLang=en

SouperComputer

As above, synctoy is what you want. Provided they are all completed downloads, otherwise it might get messy

FrankGrimes

Big thanks for that lads. Looks like exactly what I was after and more. Setting it up right now and will see how it goes.

Thanks too for offering to write the batch cance