I see you are under winz OS. I found an ancient (13 years old ?) program by Jenda that do something very similar.

I would post the link if i have found it at monastery, but seem i connot find it. So i post directly the code.

I hope Jenda will not be hurted by this.

### original code by Jenda as found at http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_
+id=105128
#perl -w
# watch_dirs.pl
use strict;
#use G;
use File::Copy;
use Win32::IPC qw(wait_any);
use Win32::ChangeNotify;
use Win32::AbsPath qw(Relative2Absolute);
use Win32::FileOp qw(:DIALOGS);

use vars qw($VERSION $path @paths $i @notify @data $file $pathnum);

$VERSION = "1.0";

if (@ARGV) {
    @paths = @ARGV;
    Relative2Absolute @paths;
    foreach (@paths) {
        die "Ussage: watch_dirs.pl [directory ...]\n\t\tversion $VERSI
+ON by Jenda.Krynicky.cz (c) 2001\n"
         unless -d $_;
    }
} else {
    while (1) {
        $path = BrowseForFolder "Watch directory for changes\nClick [C
+ancel] to finish directory selection" , CSIDL_DRIVES, BIF_RETURNONLYF
+SDIRS
         or last;
        push @paths, $path;
    }
    die "OK. No directory selected. I'm quiting.\n"
     unless @paths;
}

print "Watching directories:\n";
for ($i=0;$i<=$#paths;$i++) {
    $path = $paths[$i];
    print "\t$path\n";
    mkdir $path.'\\_b_a_c_k_u_p', 0777;
    opendir DIR, $path;
    while ($file = readdir DIR) {
        next if -d $path.'\\'.$file;
        $data[$i]->{$file} = (stat($path.'\\'.$file))[9];
    }
    closedir DIR;
    push @notify, Win32::ChangeNotify->new($path,0,"LAST_WRITE SIZE FI
+LE_NAME");
};
print "\n";


while (1) {
    $pathnum = wait_any(@notify) or die "Can't monitor the directory: 
+$!\n";
    $pathnum--; # arrays always start from zero not one

    my $pathdata = $data[$pathnum];
    my $path = $paths[$pathnum];

    opendir DIR, $path;
    while ($file = readdir DIR) {
        next if -d "$path\\$file";
        my $time = (stat("$path\\$file"))[9];
        if ($pathdata->{$file} != $time) {
            print "$path\\$file has changed!\n";
            my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)
             = localtime(time);$mon++;$year += 1900;
            my $timestr = sprintf '%04d%02d%02d-%02d%02d%02d',$year,$m
+on,$mday,$hour,$min,$sec;
            copy "$path\\$file" => "$path\\_b_a_c_k_u_p\\$file.$timest
+r";
            $pathdata->{$file} = $time;
        }
    }
    closedir DIR;

    $notify[$pathnum]->reset;
}

=pod PerlApp

perlapp watch_dirs.pl -f -c -x "-info=fileversion=1.0;productversion=1
+.0;internalname=watch_dirs.pl 1.0;originalfilename=watch_dirs.exe;com
+panyname=Jenda Krynicky;productname=watch_dirs;legaltrademarks=Jenda.
+Krynicky.cz;filedescription=Watch dirs for changes and make backup;le
+galcopyright=Jenda.Krynicky.cz"

=cut
[download]

HtH
L*

UPDATE:i was seraching in the wrong place: the program is at his homesite!

L*

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