Backup / mirror drives - incremental backups & Dropboxing & symbolic links

Caporegime
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May as well ask about all this in one thread so here we go with the first part.


Basically if I store my data on E and want to back it up to F & G incrementally what's the best way of going about this?

So what I want is to have have E:\Data backed up to F twice... one original and another a mirror sync that updates on the fly as E:\Data changes.

Then after say 4 weeks or something the original backup, mirrors E:\Data and the same happen in another 4 weeks and so on and so on.

And have the same happening on another backup drive.


Can Robocopy or FreeFileSync do this? Or is there a better alternative?



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Secondly.

With F:\Data\Precious would I be able to create a symbolic link of that to C:\Me\Dropbox ... and I assume that no problems would occur with their being two backups on the same drive? The symbolic link won't be duplicated or anything?



I want my setup to resemble something like this - http://goo.gl/wak8w
 
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Alsoooooo if the backup drives were encrypted volumes with Truecrypt would you be able to do the backups fine with what ever program is suitable?
 
After some reading I think I should be able to do all this with Robocopy, and setting the batch file up as a scheduled task at specific time increments. :)
 
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