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madmonkey

madmonkey

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Hi everyone

I've finally decided to take the plunge and upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10.

Before I do this, I want to back up my documents, music and photographs. I've just brought an external 2TB seagate drive, which should be more than enough for my needs and was wondering which back up software I should use.

Don't want anything too fancy or complicated, just something that will back up my data and restore it when\if needed. Would also prefer something free or fairly cheap.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated
 
If I'm not doing an image (Acronis in that case) I haven't found anything better than Beyond Compare.

Really good little program and isn't particularly expensive. You can schedule backups and also backs up versions etc. Maybe better and free options out there but this works for me. I'm fairly sure there is a 30 day trial period as well which may do what you're after.
 
If it's just loose files in the 3 dedicated folders (documents, music and pictures) then I'd just copy and paste them. Or stick them on Dropbox/OneDrive/Google Drive etc, compressed & encrypted if you want.

It's good practice to have a backup strategy anyway. Something reliable that will do incremental backups (one large backup with subsequent ones only adding changed files). I use Macrium Reflect (paid version) but Acronis, mentioned earlier has been fine for me in the past too (I prefer Reflect now personally, but either are fine). Macrium do a free version without incremental backups, so try that (or the fully-functional trial) first if you want to give it a go. I'm sure Acronis will do one too.

I've not used the Windows builtin backup tools since 7 or Vista but I remember it wasn't intuitive, but I've no idea if that's changed. They will be perfectly adequate for a basic backup though.
 
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