CrashPlan - Readable backups?

[KraniX]

Hi all,

Nero 12 came with my external HDD and is utter rubbish so I'm looking for a decent incremental backup tool, searched on here and CrashPlan seems to have a lot of positive feedback.

I only need a local backup and have installed and run on a small selection of folders but the files are in an unreadable format on the external harddrive.

I don't want to have to use CrashPlan on another PC just to copy over some files, is it possible to do this or can you only access via the desktop application?

Thanks.

 

[Uhtred]

So you're using crashplan to copy local files to the external hard disk?

As far as I know you would have to install the software to read them.

For your scenario I think robocopy would be perfect, the files would just be a like for like copy, it would only copy the changes after the initial sync and it's built into any recent release of windows.

There are a lot of options you can use but I suspect all you would need would be something like:

robocopy c:\sourcepath z:\destinationexternal /MIR