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Dear Genie,
In backing up my hard drive--data only, not my operating system or programs--onto an external drive, is there any reason to use the Windows backup utility (which generates that one big .bkf file) instead of just creating a mirror of my files? It seems individual files would be more useful because then if I accidentally delete an mp3 or ( ... )
In backing up my hard drive--data only, not my operating system or programs--onto an external drive, is there any reason to use the Windows backup utility (which generates that one big .bkf file) instead of just creating a mirror of my files? It seems individual files would be more useful because then if I accidentally delete an mp3 or ( ... )
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kengr
I have it set to copy most stuff to a second hard drive in the early morning hours.
I use the settings that copy new & changed files but leave alone files on the backup drive that no longer exist on the main drive.
Every once in a while I manually run a different backup config that does the same as the normal config *except* it deletes files on the backup drive that no longer exist on the main drive.
That's necessary because otherwise the backup drive fills up with old stuff I don't need or want any more.
You could do the same with an external drive, but unless it's an eSATA drive, it'll be a lot slower than using an internal drive.
My backup drive is in a removable "rack", so if I \ever decided to be really paranoid, I could shut down the system and swap in a different drive then power up, so I'd have another backup that *wasn't* in the system.
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pne
(I sync stuff from my web sites for my computer for backup, but also from my computer to an external hard drive.)
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