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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.

SSH on Windows 11 without PuTTY: native OpenSSH in 5 minutes

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0300

For years, connecting to a Linux server from Windows meant downloading PuTTY, configuring sessions, exporting keys into a proprietary format — a dance every sysadmin knows by heart. That ritual ended in 2018, when Microsoft added OpenSSH as an optional component of Windows 10. On Windows 11 it comes pre-installed. You almost certainly have a full SSH client on your machine right now and don’t know it.

What is the native Windows OpenSSH?

Microsoft ported OpenSSH — the same package that runs on Linux and macOS — as an optional feature of Windows 10 (from version 1809, October 2018) and as a pre-installed component on Windows 11. That includes:

winget: install and update every Windows app in seconds

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0300

Reimaging a work PC and then having to install Chrome, 7-Zip, VLC, Visual Studio Code, Notepad++, Git and ten other programs — one by one, each with its own installer, each with the blessed "next, next, finish" — is the kind of thing that costs any sysadmin 40 minutes and adds nothing. winget solves exactly that: one command, every program installed.

What winget is

winget (Windows Package Manager) is Microsoft's official package manager, available by default on Windows 11 and on Windows 10 version 1709 or later. It works much like apt on Debian or brew on macOS: you search for a package by name, install it with one command, and the system handles the download, the verification and the installation — no pop-ups, no graphical wizards, no unwanted toolbar bundled into the installer.