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Looking for a decent automated backup solution.
maximumzero
I...wait, what?New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
I...wait, what?New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
So my boss handed me two old external hard drives: A 500GB MyBook and a...well...the other one, obviously an enclosure, said "Metal Gear Box: Substance" on it. Weird.
Anywho, both drives were having their own issues. The WD drive wouldn't power on or be read by the computer. The Metal Gear Box was missing a power supply. So the other day I cracked open both cases to find that the WD drive was a 500GB SATA drive and the drive in the MGB was 300GB PATA drive.
After alternatively plugging both into a spare computer around the shop seemed to result in them both working with no issue, so I ordered new enclosures from Newegg.
I plan on using the 500GB drive to backup the computer I work on. Now this computer is a few years old and actually predates my employment, so while my files are all in one central folder on the desktop, there's quite a bit of stuff scattered everywhere. I'm not exactly the neatest digital person you meet (aforementioned folder needs some work) but there's stuff in every nook and cranny.
So a simple "Drag this folder to the external HDD every month" ain't gonna cut it as I'm going to miss out on like half of the files I want to backup. I use Time Machine at home and it just backups the whole damn computer at a time. While I don't need it's actual "Time Machine" feature, it making one big backup and then adding to that sounds like something I would want to be able to do on this computer. Any suggestions?
Anywho, both drives were having their own issues. The WD drive wouldn't power on or be read by the computer. The Metal Gear Box was missing a power supply. So the other day I cracked open both cases to find that the WD drive was a 500GB SATA drive and the drive in the MGB was 300GB PATA drive.
After alternatively plugging both into a spare computer around the shop seemed to result in them both working with no issue, so I ordered new enclosures from Newegg.
I plan on using the 500GB drive to backup the computer I work on. Now this computer is a few years old and actually predates my employment, so while my files are all in one central folder on the desktop, there's quite a bit of stuff scattered everywhere. I'm not exactly the neatest digital person you meet (aforementioned folder needs some work) but there's stuff in every nook and cranny.
So a simple "Drag this folder to the external HDD every month" ain't gonna cut it as I'm going to miss out on like half of the files I want to backup. I use Time Machine at home and it just backups the whole damn computer at a time. While I don't need it's actual "Time Machine" feature, it making one big backup and then adding to that sounds like something I would want to be able to do on this computer. Any suggestions?
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Yeah as long as you're willing to backup indiscriminately this works just fine. I used to use a robocopy script via scheduled tasks to do a sync style backup, but I think synctoy basically does this but in close to real time.
I'll check out these sync programs over the next few days.
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