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Robocopy: automatic Windows backup without installing anything extra

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0300

Do you have a backup of your files? Probably yes. But does that backup run on its own, incrementally, without needing third-party software? If the answer is "no" or "I don't know", Robocopy solves that right now — and it's already installed on your Windows machine.

What is Robocopy?

Robocopy (Robust File Copy) is a command-line tool included in Windows since Vista. Unlike xcopy and plain copy-paste in Explorer, it was built for serious copying: it resumes interrupted transfers, copies only the files that changed (incremental backup), supports parallel multi-threaded copying and produces a detailed log of everything that happened.

How to schedule Windows tasks without a GUI — schtasks in practice

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0300

How many of you have opened the graphical Windows Task Scheduler, clicked "Create Task…" and got lost in the Triggers, Actions and Conditions tabs? schtasks.exe solves that in the terminal, with no GUI, in a single command line — and it's installed on every Windows since XP.

If you already know crontab on Linux, the logic is similar: you define when to run and what to run. The main difference is the syntax — and the fact that schtasks can run tasks as any user, including SYSTEM, without needing a password visible in the script.

PowerShell for Beginners

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0300

If you've used Windows for years and still open the old cmd.exe for command-line tasks, you're missing out on a tool that completely changed how a Microsoft system gets administered: PowerShell. And contrary to what a lot of people think, it isn't just a "better prompt" — it's an object-oriented scripting language that runs on Windows, Linux and macOS. Let's go from zero to your first useful script in under 10 minutes.