Recommend me some software based backup

[DarkShadow]

As per thread title,

Tonight I'll be making a backup now I usually drag and drop data onto my icybox but this process is very lengthy. For example, I regularly backup my music, now when I select all, then drag and drop instead of adding 300 songs (that I can't recall at times) I usually select the option to 'overwrite all'. As you can imagine at 40GB it takes a few hours which is impractical.

Is there any software that can just sync my data and add certain files from a directory that I select?

 

[Dr_Evil]

Windows Backup?

 

[DarkShadow]

Windows Backup?

Didn't even know that existed! Seems spot on

Anything I should be aware or better alternatives?

 

[Dingleberry88]

SyncToy

 

[Dr_Evil]

You want to backup your full music folder to your external drive?

you could just create a batch file that will copy and overwrite to your external drive....

xcopy c:\music\*.* e:\music /S /Y

/s - copies subfolders
/y - suppresses overwrite confirmation

 

[MarcLister]

SyncToy

Just what you need if you only want changed or new files to be copied over. It can even compare source and destination folders and remove anything from the destination folder if its been deleted from the source folder.