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Backing up Folders on an External Hard drive question

shizz · 2011-07-01 17:07:02

Say I have My Music folder on my Laptop and I back up it's contents on an External Hard drive. How do I copy the folder on my laptop to the folder on the external hard drive, so that I back up any new files ive added to the folder, without copying all the files again?

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01-07-2011 6:07pm

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shizz

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Say I have My Music folder on my Laptop and I back up it's contents on an External Hard drive. How do I copy the folder on my laptop to the folder on the external hard drive, so that I back up any new files ive added to the folder, without copying all the files again?

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#2 01-07-2011 9:08pm
ricman

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See here http://www.lytebyte.com/2007/11/19/how-to-sync-data-files-or-folders-between-windows-vista-and-usb-drive-or-external-drive-for-free/

or http://lifehacker.com/326199/synchronize-folders-with-synctoy-20,
what os are you using ,i think 1st link is for windows vista.
theres many sync programs avaidable, google search windows sync program.

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#3 01-07-2011 9:19pm
CaSCaDe711

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Check out SyncBackSE, not too hard to setup, and free for personal use (for Windows)

http://www.2brightsparks.com/download-syncbackse.html

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#4 02-07-2011 1:50pm
shizz

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Thanks lads

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