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Disgusted with all the backup software out there?
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May 23, 2020 13:09:48   #
bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada
 
SonyBug wrote:
I have tried many different brands of backup software and finally solved the problem I have with them. I found a program in Win10 that will do just what I want. Back up the whole drive, copy over files if they are outdated and copy in new files or directories.

Want to know what it is? A batch file command named "robocopy". A high level copying program that will take less than 10 minutes to set up, the calling batch file resides on the Desktop and it just did a 2nd backup in under 10 minutes. The first did take 5 hours, but that backed up 410GB of data.
Here is the command in the batch file if you want to use it.

robocopy c:\ d:\ *.* /s /R:1 /purge /mir /w:0 /xd "C:\users\dk\onedrive" "C:\windows"

I could set this up as a cron job, and have it back up continuously thru the day, but it is just as easy to hit the icon on the desktop every so often and then be sure it is working.
I have tried many different brands of backup softw... (show quote)

I have 'EaseUS Todo Backup Home' installed on five PC's/Laptops. It has worked very well for me over the years. It's not free but the cost is reasonable considering it works (and has saved my butt on two occasions)!

bwa

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May 23, 2020 15:34:11   #
tomad Loc: North Carolina
 
I've been using Robocopy for years as a backup for all my photos. I keep all my photos in tree structure on a 4TB external drive and I use the script to copy that drive to another drive every time I add/edit photos on the original drive so that I always have at least two copies of all my photos.

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