Backup specific locations

Relentless81 · 18 Feb 2015 at 07:56

Hi,

I have Windows 8.1 and a dedicated internal backup drive, I've been using Windows File History and I really don't like it, it works in the opposite way that I would want IE you have to exclude locations rather than just add the one or two locations that I want backed up.

Is there any way or any software that I can use to backup to an internal drive that I can point to the one or two folders I want backing up that will copy and changes made to those folders automatically?

Thanks

pepp77 · 18 Feb 2015 at 08:02

Microsofts very own Synctoy will do this.

Scottland · 18 Feb 2015 at 09:32

I'm using FileHistory at the moment, I've just added the folders I want syncing to a library (or created a new library) and it syncs them. Admittedly I don't use libraries for anything else, so I removed all the default ones first.

Raumarik · 18 Feb 2015 at 10:09

Install the crashplan client and use that, it's free and frankly brilliant. It'll create and encrypted backup too so you could save it onto an external drive if you wanted to.

You just add what you want backed up, very easy to use and it can run at scheduled times etc. I've had problems with Synctoy so I'd always recommend Crashplan or Robocopy.

KIA · 18 Feb 2015 at 10:43

Cobian Backup.

Relentless81 · 18 Feb 2015 at 12:11

Thanks I will look into these

zola25 · 18 Feb 2015 at 14:39

Scottland said:
I'm using FileHistory at the moment, I've just added the folders I want syncing to a library (or created a new library) and it syncs them. Admittedly I don't use libraries for anything else, so I removed all the default ones first.

This is what I do too, I have a specific library for backups.

Prior to Windows 8 I used Cobian which is very reliable.

Relentless81 · 18 Feb 2015 at 19:52

pepp77 said:
Microsofts very own Synctoy will do this.

Thanks for this, exactly what I wanted and seems to do well with a scheduled task

Cheers