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Does anyone know a good backup tool for windows 10? My father in law wants to backup his documents onto a usb hard drive. (he doesn't want to put it in the cloud, so no dropbox or onedrive or the likes). Basically it should just take a copy of his documents and images (about 6 GB or something) every month or so... I could write something, but wanted to check first if something was already available. the simpler the better. thanks.
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How about a scheduled task that runs a one line .bat file? It doesn't get any simpler.
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I would imagine that, because it's been updated by microsoft in recent years, it's bloated, buggy, and unintuitive to use.
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AOMEI can do that: How to Schedule Windows Backup with AOMEI Backupper Software[^]
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I wonder how many TB do you already have in Backups... or have you automated a FIFO process?
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I wonder how many TB do you already have in Backups... or have you automated a FIFO process?
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Manual FIFO (with exceptions for first new OS install and the previous old OS working), but I cycle between 4 by 4TB USB HDD's and can fit around 16 full-image backups on each. Dailies go to the NAS, which has around 4TB allocated to backups. [edit]:doh: GB Griff? No....[\edit]
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Manual FIFO (with exceptions for first new OS install and the previous old OS working), but I cycle between 4 by 4TB USB HDD's and can fit around 16 full-image backups on each. Dailies go to the NAS, which has around 4TB allocated to backups. [edit]:doh: GB Griff? No....[\edit]
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OriginalGriff wrote:
4GB allocated to backups
Actually that's not that much... I would have imagine something bigger
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OriginalGriff wrote:
4GB allocated to backups
Actually that's not that much... I would have imagine something bigger
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that's what she said... ;P
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OriginalGriff wrote:
4GB allocated to backups
Actually that's not that much... I would have imagine something bigger
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It's only the daily incrementals, so they don't usually take much space each.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
4GB allocated to backups
Actually that's not that much... I would have imagine something bigger
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
:doh: Fixed: I boobed. For GB, read TB throughout...:sigh:
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I would imagine that, because it's been updated by microsoft in recent years, it's bloated, buggy, and unintuitive to use.
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:doh: Fixed: I boobed. For GB, read TB throughout...:sigh:
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that sounds more realistic ;) :-D
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Does anyone know a good backup tool for windows 10? My father in law wants to backup his documents onto a usb hard drive. (he doesn't want to put it in the cloud, so no dropbox or onedrive or the likes). Basically it should just take a copy of his documents and images (about 6 GB or something) every month or so... I could write something, but wanted to check first if something was already available. the simpler the better. thanks.
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A simple batch file using robocopy does the trick.
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Does anyone know a good backup tool for windows 10? My father in law wants to backup his documents onto a usb hard drive. (he doesn't want to put it in the cloud, so no dropbox or onedrive or the likes). Basically it should just take a copy of his documents and images (about 6 GB or something) every month or so... I could write something, but wanted to check first if something was already available. the simpler the better. thanks.
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Why not using the built-in backup tool?
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AOMEI can do that: How to Schedule Windows Backup with AOMEI Backupper Software[^]
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Does anyone know a good backup tool for windows 10? My father in law wants to backup his documents onto a usb hard drive. (he doesn't want to put it in the cloud, so no dropbox or onedrive or the likes). Basically it should just take a copy of his documents and images (about 6 GB or something) every month or so... I could write something, but wanted to check first if something was already available. the simpler the better. thanks.
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How do you decide that this and other free software is purely altruistic? Always a difficult decision but I cannot see how the company earns its money. Maybe its run by a Chinese philanthropist
In this case, the free version is fully functional - I got the full version because I use it all the time and they deserve something for all their effort. I guess it's the old "shareware" principle: give it away, and if people want to pay you and maybe get a few extra features (AOMEI Professional is "faster" - can't honestly say I've noticed - but does have a few nifty features I haven't used) then that's profit without having to have a huge marketing budget?
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Does anyone know a good backup tool for windows 10? My father in law wants to backup his documents onto a usb hard drive. (he doesn't want to put it in the cloud, so no dropbox or onedrive or the likes). Basically it should just take a copy of his documents and images (about 6 GB or something) every month or so... I could write something, but wanted to check first if something was already available. the simpler the better. thanks.
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I use Cobian Backup for me and my company (40 employees) since 10 years. It can be configured as a service for automated copies or as a program for manual ones. Additionally you can choose how frequently you want it to make copies: manually, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or timed. You have the options for include XXX files (A whole directory, several directories, masks, files) and the same for exclusion. Also Full backups or just incremental. You can make just a copy or compress it in one archive (ZIP or RAR) It is powerful and best of all its free.
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Does anyone know a good backup tool for windows 10? My father in law wants to backup his documents onto a usb hard drive. (he doesn't want to put it in the cloud, so no dropbox or onedrive or the likes). Basically it should just take a copy of his documents and images (about 6 GB or something) every month or so... I could write something, but wanted to check first if something was already available. the simpler the better. thanks.
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rsync in an auto-run script on the USB hard drive?
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Does anyone know a good backup tool for windows 10? My father in law wants to backup his documents onto a usb hard drive. (he doesn't want to put it in the cloud, so no dropbox or onedrive or the likes). Basically it should just take a copy of his documents and images (about 6 GB or something) every month or so... I could write something, but wanted to check first if something was already available. the simpler the better. thanks.
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Have you tried SyncToy? I use it at home and at work.
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A simple batch file using robocopy does the trick.
