Backing up my PC’s main data
Not much to say really. Except regularly backing up your key data is important. I have an external USB2 hard disk (appears as my Q: drive) and use Microsoft’s free SyncToy 2.1
I run it in contribute mode with my synching folders (folder-pairs) something like this
| Left | Right |
| C:My Documents | Q:backupsMy Documents |
| C:Music | Q:backupsMusic |
SyncToy (ST) was initially designed to keep the two folder-pairs (labelled Left and Right) in synch. So if you added a file to the Left folder then ran ST, it would copy that new file to the Right folder…of that pair. Or vice versa. Including changes/deletes.
Contribute mode in ST is newer and different, basically not really syncing, just copying from Left to Right and not deleting. It’s my quick and simple back up. Mainly My Documents, Music, business data (MYOB) and some text files/notes.
