Have you used Task Scheduler to copy files from one drive to another?

New Win10 v.1903 user with a new computer with two internal drives, C and D.

Before experimenting with this myself, has anyone had success using task scheduler to copy a file from one internal drive to another, separate internal drive? QuickBooks doesn't appear to play nice when its data files aren't residing on the same drive as the program file, and my third-party backup service will only back up one drive on their basic service tier (and it doesn't really make sense to upgrade for a few files).

As a workaround I thought perhaps Windows task scheduler could be used to automate the copying of the QuickBooks files from Drive C: to Drive D: so they would then be backed up.

Has anyone successfully copied files this way across separate drives, and if so, would you be willing to share the steps you took?

Thank you.

Although Try3 got here first, I am also running a backup (in my case nightly) using a batch file running xcopy. I am only adding my response because I experienced some difficulty getting the task to run, due to problems with setting the credentials it runs with (as I am not often logged in at 5:55am). If you have issues with that, I may be able to help (but don't know enough to write a guide, only to know what eventually worked for me). Martin

Try3, mngerhold, thank you for the quick responses. I'm going to work on this later in the week (and may be back with a few questions).
Lis

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Berton, thank you for the reply. I'm using a third-party service to back up all my data files to the cloud. When I exit QB, I specify "local backup" to an internal drive, but then the third-party service looks for new files and files that have changed, and those files are automatically backed up. It just saves time over a manual backup to external media for multiple files.