====== Backup using rsync ======

You need to install [[http://www.cygwin.com/|cygwin]]. Within the cygwin setup program, install rsync.

Suppose your user name is mike, and you install cygwin in ''C:\cygwin''.

Create a shell script ''C:\cygwin\home\mike\data-backup.sh'' to do the job:
<file - data-backup.sh>
#!/bin/sh

# these are needed to support Chinese characters
LANG=en_US.UTF-8; export LANG
set meta-flag on 
set convert-meta off  # to show it as character, not the octal representation
set output-meta on  # to show 8-bit characters
set input-meta on


# sync my data files in C: drive to E: drive's backup folder:
rsync -av --delete --stats "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/mike/My Documents" /cygdrive/e/backup/
rsync -av --delete --stats "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/mike/桌面" /cygdrive/e/backup/

</file>


Create a batch file to run the shell script:
<file - data-backup.bat>
@echo off
cd C:\cygwin\bin
bash --login ~/data-backup.sh
</file>

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