6Code maintenance
6.1Poor man’s backup
There are many great backup programs, but you can actually get far with the free stuff already on your system. The modern cloud-based backup programs can—in my experience—be immature, dictating unreasonable requirements to your disk-structure. An older trusted solution is given here. On Windows, “robocopy” is very persistent in its attempts to copy your data. The following text in a BAT file (as a single line) copies “MyProject” to a Google drive—it could also be a network drive, etc.
Listing 6.1: Poor mans backup using Robocopy
Table 6.1 describes the options used—there are more.
Table 6.1: Robocopy parameters. ...
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