Asus EEE PC S101 Netbook

Just had my hands on one of the sexy babe. The S101 is IMHO: SEXY! Simply EXpensive Yes but I still want one! We tested one of these in Parkway Harvey Norman. Check out these review links: –

http://www.itechnews.net/2008/10/07/asus-eee-pc-s101-live-shots/

http://www.itechnews.net/2008/10/20/asus-eee-pc-s101-unboxed/#more-14683

http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/asus-eee-pc-s101/4505-3121_7-33357387.html

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/laptops/0,39029450,49299358-1,00.htm

 

Currently available in Singapore is the Dark Brown S101. Other than the price, we highly recommend this showoff piece with decent performance netbook to anyone who does blogging, typing, work on simple Excel worksheet, surf net, does emails etc.

Like:

• Nice screen, 10.2” WVGA(1024×600) – LED backlight. Some of you might concern about the 1024×600, well, it looks better than a 1600×1200 on a 12” screen. Comfortable to the eyes.
• Good keyboard! Much better than the EEEPC 701 we had.
• Thin, overall well balanced spec.

 

Dislike:

• The price: S$1,098??!?
• Battery, 4 cell only. Claimed 5 hrs… I am not too sure about it.
• 16GB with 11GB available ONLY!

 

Recommendation:

• Upgrade to 2GB RAM and throw away that 1GB RAM. Although some reviewer says upgrades does not work…weird!
• Clean up unnecessary XP Home Services to make it run faster.
• Add high speed SD card to store your files.

Using Robocopy

Robocopy or Robust File Copy is a command line replicated directory program. This program is recommended by a friend from US. 

This program good, easy to use and help me in saving a lot of time in writing script.  What I like the most is the log function and can give me the correct information that I required.

The best is that It can copy a single 100G sql database data over a network to a NAS as a backup without any problem.

 

Below are the script that I had written to run backup:

set folder1=%date:~0,3% <– This is to set the day Example: Mon, Tue…etc. As I don’t need to create a lot of batch to copy to different folder. 

robocopy “M:” “E:\%folder%” /R:1 /W:5 /XO /ETA /NP /LOG+:C:\Scripts\Log\data.txt

/R: Tells Robocopy to retry ‘n’ times before giving up in the event of error (default is 1 million).
      (Set it to repeat 1 time to prevent it from repeating it 1 million time)

/W: Wait time between retries (default is 30 seconds).
       (Usually I set it within 3 to 5 second)

/XO: Exclude older files
        (It will copy only the new files and not the old files. This should help you to save a lot of time during the backup process)

/NP: No Progress
       (If you don’t disable the option and the log files will record the copy percentage into the log file)

/ETA: To show the estimated  timing of arrival of copied files
          (This is very good as you can see how much you each files take to copy over to another media)

/LOG+:file:  Output status to LOG file (append to existing log).
                    (It will record the backup status so that you are able to trace which backup is not done properly)

 

 

 Figure 1 – The details of the log file created using Robocopy

 

I discover a way to copy selective files to other media as from most of the forum saying that it can only copy a whole from the folder.

Below is the script:

robocopy “M:” “E:\%folder%” DATA01.zip DATA02.zip  /R:1 /W:5 /XO /ETA /NP /LOG+:C:\Scripts\Log\data.txt

The script is about the same as the above. The only difference is that I put the files DATA01.zip and DATA02.zip which I want to from M drive to E drive. 

Of course, you have to make sure the drive is state correctly and the files you want to copy from this drive to other external drive.

 

I would highly recommended people to use robocopy for running backup of raw data and data migration.