daily backup of work

cosgrove80

There have been a lot of threads about people backing up there harddrives.

Most of the time people recommend Norton Ghost.

I don't want to make disk images or anything fancy. I have a work drive on my pc and a work drive on an external hardrive also.

At the end of the day I want to copy the pc "work" folder to the external "work" folder only copying new files and any files that are updated.

I don't need compression or anything. I just want something more efficent than copy and paste. Something similar to the Maxtor drives "One-touch" backup utility.

Does any one have a suggestion? Ghost seems a bit excessive but I could be mistaken.

Thanks for any advice.

steve-hosting36

If you have broadband, one option is an offiste backup solution. There are a number of vendors in the market, with rates from about 15 euro per month, for a fully managed offsite backup.

banbutcher

surely there are some kind of batch files that will do this for you!Here is a page that should help ya!!
Banbuther

Kai

Batch file ?

write one that will copy files to the new drive when you double click the batch or you could use the windows scheduler to have it run a certain time. im sure theres a way to check if the file has a later Modified date and if it does ten copy it across to the backup drive.

is that something like you had in mind ?

Bogger77

There's a program called XXcopy, that's free to use for personal use. got loads of options for backinup, cloning, copying only new/changed files etc. You just have to write a batch file to use it.

google has it

cosgrove80

Thanks for the replies.

I don't really want to scedule a batch file because some days I mightn't backup anything and often the external drive isn't attached.

I had a look at xxcopy. It seems like a good utility but I was hoping for something with a GUI. I'm not overly confident with switches/dos commands and was hoping for a drag and grop style interface. I could use xxcopy but it mightn't always be me doing the backup and I want something with shiny easy to use buttons.

I'm probably missing a simple tool out there. Well back to google.

Thanks again

MazdaMan

Here is a free utility to make back ups manually, provide synchronisation with files as well
SyncBack 3.2.2.0
http://www.soft32.com/download_67048.html

savemejebus

didn't briefcase in win 98 used to have something like that and a synch button?

cosgrove80

MazdaMan wrote:

Here is a free utility to make back ups manually, provide synchronisation with files as well
SyncBack 3.2.2.0
http://www.soft32.com/download_67048.html

Thanks, that's pretty much what I was looking for. My googling skill s are letting me down

I downloaded a trial of Genie Backup Manager and it seems to do what I want.

I'll try Syncback once the trial runs out.

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