ramblin21 Loc: Sharon,Wisconsin

Hello: I have Win 10 and I use Win 7 Backup which is included in Windows, I backup to a 2TB external, I have 3- 2TB externals hooked up via a usb hub, so I can use any 1 I wish at any time just by pushing the power button for each drive. My question: after I do a backup say on 1st usb can I select on that drive all that pertains to the current backup and Copy it to the other drives as a 2nd an 3rd backup, instead of doing a separate backup individually, without any worries?
And do any of you do this and are there any precautions before doing so? Your help is appreciated!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Like you, I have an external hub with buttons - very convenient. I use SyncBack SE to back up seven folders to them every couple of days. I turn on SyncBack and click on "External." That backs up the seven folders to the drive that is powered. Then I eject the drive, turn it off, and do the same with the second drive.

You can also turn both drives on at the same time and copy whatever you want from one to the other.

ramblin21 Loc: Sharon,Wisconsin

Thanks jerry, I had Syncback free for a little while but it started not backing up 12 of the system files in windows, so I excluded them from the backup and it was flawless after that, but the next time it came up with 208 and 306 files it would not backup-they were errors- Syncback went to the Recycle Bin ASAP. That is why I use Win 7 Backup it does what it says it is going to do and I never have any errors. You just can't Restore single files or even a few files separately. you have to Restore the whole thing, that's disappointing but at least I can Restore them. I was trying to find out if I could Copy a backup of Win 7 Backup to my other externals without worrying that the backup would be corrupt since it was Backed up to a different drive in the 1st place. Thanks for your help.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Sometimes I get error messages from SyncBack, but that hasn't happened in months. That's why I like having three separate backup drives. When I try that backup later, it will work fine. Strange.

ramblin21 Loc: Sharon,Wisconsin

You are right about the errors but that is just toooo much for my comfort, I've had years of stuff that got completely demolished because of bad backups that had errors. Now I have 3 different Backup Programs Win 7 Backup, AOMEI Backupper 3.2 Free download, Ease US TODO Backup 9.1 out of these three I am covered no matter what hits me, plus I do the same for Laptop on 3 different external drives. Good luck with SyncBack Have Fun, take lots of photos. I have photos from 1982-2016 on externals.