Automatic Offline Full Backup Plan: CQ5 Installed As a Service

I have designed an Automatic Offline Full Backup Plan for CQ5 Installed As a Service. I welcome your comments.
Do you have any better way (scripts)?
Offline Full Backup Scripts for Author
:: offlineAuthorBackUp_CQ5AsService.bat
:: Stop CQ5 service
chdir /D %~dp0
net stop cq5
::copy all files and folders to the destination
mkdir h:\cq5backup\offline\author\backup
::robocopy only copies the updated files, so it is very quickly
c:
robocopy /MIR c:\cq5\author h:\cq5backup\offline\author\backup
:: Start CQ5 service
net start cq5
::Zip the backup with 7z.exe
h:
cd h:\cq5backup\offline\author
7z a -y -tzip offlineAuthorBackup_%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%.zip h:\cq5backup\offline\author\backup

There is one big advantage of a clone. You can immediately reboot
to it and continue working and deal with the regular boot drive faiure,
what ever it may be, later. Especially since all your data and such
is on another drive. If you use your computer for work and time
critical projects, this is a major plus!
In the case of a hard drive failure/replacement, copying the clone
to the drive is the fastest way to get the system and all your settings
back.
Time Machine and incremental backups have a place as well. It is best
suited for "incremental" problems. Examples are installing an upgrade to
software that doesn't work or just don't plain like. With Time Machine it
is easy to just restore back to the point before the install.
Something else I do is backup current project files to USB memory sticks.
If you are using your computer for business, you can never have too many
backups. Coralllary 456 of Murphy's Law is the "number of backups that
you need will be one more than what you have!"

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Jim Bogy wrote:
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This is the article I read:
Article I read

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canadavenyc wrote:
V.K. wrote:
yes, well, if Toronto ever gets a team in any sport worth rooting for, I might stop posting on apple forums and start watching them.
lol...well, seeing as how you'll clearly be here a while then... ...perhaps I can prevail upon you to answer one last question that just occurred to me.
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