• Registered: 2017-02-23
  • Posts: 167

Topic: User Profile Backup Tool v1.0

Hello all MVD,

Here I post this utility, still in the works, just a small tool to do an entire backup of a user's profile to a drive or folder locally (or to a shared drive if mapped beforehand).  It uses the 'OpenFile' function of MVD to invoke a batch file for the copy operations ( uses ROBOCOPY), and one .INI file to store information that the batch file needs.  It's not a great combination but I post it here so that it can be improved and other features added as we progress.  I will appreciate your input and ideas and you're free and welcome to edit it to make it better and come up with other solutions.

*** THINGS THAT I WISH TO SEE **

  • * A progress bar displayed at the bottom showing the progress of the command window

    * A log file created after the backup to review all the operations performed or any errros.

    * Maybe the mapping of a shared drive or shareed resource on the network done from within MVD ** Don't know if that's possible.

    For now I think that's all, I will be making changes and post them here as we go forward.

Thanks and hope you like it.  smile

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Attachment icon Backup Tool.rar 345.18 kb, 335 downloads since 2019-10-20 

  • Registered: 2019-09-04
  • Posts: 39

Re: User Profile Backup Tool v1.0

gonpublic2k wrote:

Hello all MVD,

Here I post this utility, still in the works, just a small tool to do an entire backup of a user's profile to a drive or folder locally (or to a shared drive if mapped beforehand).  It uses the 'OpenFile' function of MVD to invoke a batch file for the copy operations ( uses ROBOCOPY), and one .INI file to store information that the batch file needs.  It's not a great combination but I post it here so that it can be improved and other features added as we progress.  I will appreciate your input and ideas and you're free and welcome to edit it to make it better and come up with other solutions.

*** THINGS THAT I WISH TO SEE **

  • * A progress bar displayed at the bottom showing the progress of the command window

    * A log file created after the backup to review all the operations performed or any errros.

    * Maybe the mapping of a shared drive or shareed resource on the network done from within MVD ** Don't know if that's possible.

    For now I think that's all, I will be making changes and post them here as we go forward.

Thanks and hope you like it.  smile

Wow. such a great project. We will readily help make it one of the best if not the best. Congratulations once again

  • Registered: 2017-02-23
  • Posts: 167

Re: User Profile Backup Tool v1.0

Thanks @hotice546, other improvements I forgot to mention could be to allow the user to pick what items are going
to be backed-up.  Maybe using checkboxes so they can check off what they need to save.  The possibilities are endless.

big_smile

  • Registered: 2017-02-23
  • Posts: 167

Re: User Profile Backup Tool v1.0

Hello All MVD,

In case the tool may have not worked for some of you, it's my fault.  I noticed that in my code I left a reference pointing to a
shortcut for the batch file, having my computer path as a target.  I have fixed this by pointing to the CMD batch itself. 
Should work accordingly as expected. My apologies.


Download the new file below:

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Attachment icon Backup Tool v1.0.rar 344.36 kb, 322 downloads since 2019-10-20