backup

[Bob]

Hi Group,
I just bought an external hard drive to back up my data. I'm wondering if
there is any way that I can automatically backup individual files I create
or modify and save. Not review and backup everything, just one file. I have
a trial version of Genie but in an "incremental" backup, it still goes
through the whole process every time. In windows help, it mentions
"incremental" and "differential" backups, but I cant find any information on
how to actually do it. All I want to do is add one file at a time to my
backup drive as I save, behind the scenes, without my knowing it, in
addition to the place I would normally keep it. Any advice would be
appreciated.
Bob

 

[Malke]

Hi Group,
I just bought an external hard drive to back up my data. I'm wondering
if there is any way that I can automatically backup individual files I
create or modify and save. Not review and backup everything, just one
file. I have a trial version of Genie but in an "incremental" backup,
it still goes through the whole process every time. In windows help,
it mentions "incremental" and "differential" backups, but I cant find
any information on how to actually do it. All I want to do is add one
file at a time to my backup drive as I save, behind the scenes,
without my knowing it, in addition to the place I would normally keep
it. Any advice would be appreciated.
Bob

I like SecondCopy for backups from www.centered.com. It will do what you
want and is very reasonably priced.

Malke

 

[Z]

Hi Group,
I just bought an external hard drive to back up my data. I'm wondering if
there is any way that I can automatically backup individual files I create
or modify and save. Not review and backup everything, just one file. I have
a trial version of Genie but in an "incremental" backup, it still goes
through the whole process every time. In windows help, it mentions
"incremental" and "differential" backups, but I cant find any information on
how to actually do it. All I want to do is add one file at a time to my

You could kinda kludge this with Windows Backup.

The saved copy of the file will not be backed asynchronously - that is,
a copy will not be initiated when you change the file. The file would be
copied up in a synchronous fashion, according to the schedule for the
backup job (eg: daily, when idle, etc).

 

[Bob]

Thank you for the replies. I did get Second Copy and you are right. I can
set it to copy changed or new files every minute or so and that's good
enough.
Thanks again.