There's no denying its high aptness for purpose ratio as demonstrated by a group copy-utility comparison article I posted about previously (see "RoboCopy vs RichCopy vs SyncBack vs EMCopy vs XXCopy vs XCopy vs KillCopy" at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 717#p71717). Now, from the same TinyApps.org where I got that article, comes a recommendation for another command-line backup utility that somehow didn't get a mention...
Strarc is made by the same dev that gave us the ImDisk dynamic disk driver (for details, see http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... hp?t=21606), and comes recommended as a simpler but equally potent OSS alternative to RoboCopy.
Strarc latest 32 and 64-bit release (currently dated 2015-08-17) can be downloaded from http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#CmdUtils; the program's documentation can be perused at http://www.ltr-data.se/files/strarc.txt.http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#CmdUtil wrote:[Strarc is] A console backup/archive tool for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7. It uses the same backup methods as the ntbackup or robocopy programs and thus backs up all information and meta data on an NTFS volume. The main difference is that strarc is free and open source and produces stream archives you can store on tapes, disks or anywhere else or it can create the archive stream to stdout so that it can be compressed easily using stream compression tools like gzip or bzip2. The command line switches and parameters are quite similar to the *nix tar utility and it can easily be used to clone an entire NTFS volume including everything, files, directories, their time stamps, attributes and security information, compression attribute, alternate data streams, junctions, hard links etc. It is now even possible to backup the registry database files of a running Windows system.
