I'd like to find a program that would automatically backup changed files to a
USB drive. Can anyone make any recommendations?

On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:55:45 -0700, "Bob F" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I'd like to find a program that would automatically backup changed files to a
>USB drive. Can anyone make any recommendations?
>

XP comes with a Backup utility that is described in the Help and
Support Center

WinZip has an option to collect only files which are marked ready to
archive. I expect other zip programs do also.

Google returns almost 11 million hits on the subject.

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Bob F wrote:

> I'd like to find a program that would automatically backup changed files to a
> USB drive. Can anyone make any recommendations?

Paragon Backup & Recovery 10 (free)
Macrium Reflect Free
DriveImage XML

You never mentioned whether you want only freeware or are willing to pay
for backup software. For payware:

Acronis TrueImage Home

If you have a Western Digital or Seagate hard disk, you can download the
free (but crippled) version of Acronis from the web sites of those hard
disk makers.

On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:55:45 -0700, "Bob F" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I'd like to find a program that would automatically backup changed files to a
>USB drive. Can anyone make any recommendations?
>
XXCopy will do a good job. You can start with the /Clone switch and
add any of the many other switches to get just what you want.

It normally doesn't rely on the attribute bit, but on the date-time
stamp to decide which files have changed.

Backing up to a USB drive is just like backing up to anything else,
from the software's pov. You just specify the drive by its letter,
and if you unplug it and replug it, verify each time a few times that
it gets the same letter each time, even if you plug other tthings in
too, like cameras and flashdrives, usb harddrives, etc.

You can't make a bootable copy of the whole partition this way, for
that you need XXCLone, also free.

Anthony Buckland wrote:
> "Bob F" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:im3jaj$c7m$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I'd like to find a program that would automatically backup changed
>> files to a USB drive. Can anyone make any recommendations?
>>
>>
>
> Define "automatic." Do you want every file that is
> changed to immediately thereafter, with no action
> on your part, be backed up? Do you want
> backups at regular intervals, like hourly, daily, ...,
> of changed files (only) to happen without action
> on your part? Or something else? Such as, do you
> want backups initiated by you to backup only files
> that have been changed?

Any of those would work. You put them in the best order of priority.

VanguardLH wrote:
> Bob F wrote:
>
>> I'd like to find a program that would automatically backup changed
>> files to a USB drive. Can anyone make any recommendations?
>
> Paragon Backup & Recovery 10 (free)
> Macrium Reflect Free
> DriveImage XML
>
> You never mentioned whether you want only freeware or are willing to
> pay for backup software. For payware:
>
> Acronis TrueImage Home
>
> If you have a Western Digital or Seagate hard disk, you can download
> the free (but crippled) version of Acronis from the web sites of
> those hard disk makers.

The seagate version doesn't do incremental backups - just an image, AFAICT.

VanguardLH wrote:
> Bob F wrote:
>
>> I'd like to find a program that would automatically backup changed
>> files to a USB drive. Can anyone make any recommendations?
>
> Paragon Backup & Recovery 10 (free)
> Macrium Reflect Free
> DriveImage XML

I will research these - thanks.

Barry Schwarz wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:55:45 -0700, "Bob F" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to find a program that would automatically backup changed
>> files to a USB drive. Can anyone make any recommendations?
>>
>
> XP comes with a Backup utility that is described in the Help and
> Support Center

I'll have to look at this again. I know the version on Vista wanted to do a full
backup first, which the USB flash drive can't handle.

>
> WinZip has an option to collect only files which are marked ready to
> archive. I expect other zip programs do also.

That's good info. Thanks.
>
> Google returns almost 11 million hits on the subject.

That's part of my problem.

On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:27:36 -0700, "Bob F" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>VanguardLH wrote:
>> Bob F wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to find a program that would automatically backup changed
>>> files to a USB drive. Can anyone make any recommendations?
>>
>> Paragon Backup & Recovery 10 (free)
>> Macrium Reflect Free
>> DriveImage XML
>>
>> You never mentioned whether you want only freeware or are willing to
>> pay for backup software. For payware:
>>
>> Acronis TrueImage Home
>>
>> If you have a Western Digital or Seagate hard disk, you can download
>> the free (but crippled) version of Acronis from the web sites of
>> those hard disk makers.
>
>The seagate version doesn't do incremental backups - just an image, AFAICT.

Acronis itself has a free version of Acronis True Image Home, not tied
to WD or Seagate, that does incremental, full, and that other one,
iirc
>

On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:26:07 -0700, "Bob F" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Anthony Buckland wrote:
>> "Bob F" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:im3jaj$c7m$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> I'd like to find a program that would automatically backup changed
>>> files to a USB drive. Can anyone make any recommendations?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Define "automatic." Do you want every file that is
>> changed to immediately thereafter, with no action
>> on your part, be backed up? Do you want
>> backups at regular intervals, like hourly, daily, ...,
>> of changed files (only) to happen without action
>> on your part? Or something else? Such as, do you
>> want backups initiated by you to backup only files
>> that have been changed?
>
>Any of those would work. You put them in the best order of priority.

The first one has risks, unless you have another backkup. If you
screw up a file, than back it up immediately, you'll have two
screwed-up files.
>