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Re: USB hard drive that automatically backs up my folders?
Hey guys, here is how I've set it up based on my personal preference/needs. SyncBack the program Eric suggested works great although there's a bit of a learning curve at first, there are plenty of settings to customize depending on how you want your back ups to work. 1. I have a bunch of folders on my hard drive that I… -
Re: USB hard drive that automatically backs up my folders?
Eric, selecting the specific folders I want to mirror is extremely tedious. Am I doing something wrong? It lists my entire c: drive without any kind of formatting, no plus signs to collapse large folder trees. Or should I be creating multiple profiles, each one with the root folder of what I want to back up? -
Re: USB hard drive that automatically backs up my folders?
Everything seems to be working now, switching the usb hard drive to a different port and installing it's driver seemed to fix the issue? It has been connected now for over 24 hours. I've run the back up of my art folder manually, I'll see what happens sunday night when the auto process runs and backs up the rest of the… -
Re: USB hard drive that automatically backs up my folders?
I mentioned it before somewhere but you can use symbolic links mklink /d c:\unmadenewfolder d:\existingfolder start the dos prompt as admin /d tells it to link whole directories c:unmadenewfolder is the fake folder you want to pretend exists d:existingfolder is the real folder (you will have copied this over from c: to… -
Re: USB hard drive that automatically backs up my folders?
Yeah, online coud be a great solution. The problem that I have with Dropbox (as a backup, I mean) is that it has to be put into a fresh folder created on setup. I don't think one can just point to an existing folder like Malcolm did ... So yeah I'd be curious about other services too. Somehow I am totally for online/cloud… -
Re: USB hard drive that automatically backs up my folders?
Something like Synctoy can be pretty useful for making backups: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=15155 All you need to do is run a windows scheduler to run a command line version of synctoy and it will check for any folder or file modifications and only update what is needed. EDIT: It's also useful if… -
Re: USB hard drive that automatically backs up my folders?
Hey, interesting thread. So, now that it seems like you found a good software to manage it all, what is your overall approach to art data backup ? For instance : do you simply make it all sync to that one drive as a mirror of what is currently on your computer ? (therefore, backuping "all your art at once") ? Or do you… -
USB hard drive that automatically backs up my folders?
I'm looking for a piece of software that I can configure to do regular backups of my c: drive and store the back up on an external USB drive. Anyone got any suggestions? -
Re: USB hard drive that automatically backs up my folders?
Thanks I'll take a look. I'd like to do a once a week mirror backup of some specific folders. -
Re: USB hard drive that automatically backs up my folders?
I like Eric's program, it just copies the folders I choose on to the usb drive. It looks for new files that have been added and time stamp changes on existing files. Quite good once you get it set up.
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