Hi Group,
I just bought an external hard drive to back up my data. I'm wondering if
there is any way that I can automatically backup individual files I create
or modify and save. Not review and backup everything, just one file. I have
a trial version of Genie but in an "incremental" backup, it still goes
through the whole process every time. In windows help, it mentions
"incremental" and "differential" backups, but I cant find any information on
how to actually do it. All I want to do is add one file at a time to my
backup drive as I save, behind the scenes, without my knowing it, in
addition to the place I would normally keep it. Any advice would be
appreciated.
Bob

Bob wrote:

> Hi Group,
> I just bought an external hard drive to back up my data. I'm wondering
> if there is any way that I can automatically backup individual files I
> create or modify and save. Not review and backup everything, just one
> file. I have a trial version of Genie but in an "incremental" backup,
> it still goes through the whole process every time. In windows help,
> it mentions "incremental" and "differential" backups, but I cant find
> any information on how to actually do it. All I want to do is add one
> file at a time to my backup drive as I save, behind the scenes,
> without my knowing it, in addition to the place I would normally keep
> it. Any advice would be appreciated.
> Bob

I like SecondCopy for backups from www.centered.com. It will do what you
want and is very reasonably priced.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Bob wrote:
> Hi Group,
> I just bought an external hard drive to back up my data. I'm wondering if
> there is any way that I can automatically backup individual files I create
> or modify and save. Not review and backup everything, just one file. I have
> a trial version of Genie but in an "incremental" backup, it still goes
> through the whole process every time. In windows help, it mentions
> "incremental" and "differential" backups, but I cant find any information on
> how to actually do it. All I want to do is add one file at a time to my

You could kinda kludge this with Windows Backup.

The saved copy of the file will not be backed asynchronously - that is,
a copy will not be initiated when you change the file. The file would be
copied up in a synchronous fashion, according to the schedule for the
backup job (eg: daily, when idle, etc).

Thank you for the replies. I did get Second Copy and you are right. I can
set it to copy changed or new files every minute or so and that's good
enough.
Thanks again.

"Z" <Z@no.spam> wrote in message news:Cnz%e.1388$ES.436@fe07.lga...
> Bob wrote:
>> Hi Group,
>> I just bought an external hard drive to back up my data. I'm wondering if
>> there is any way that I can automatically backup individual files I
>> create or modify and save. Not review and backup everything, just one
>> file. I have a trial version of Genie but in an "incremental" backup, it
>> still goes through the whole process every time. In windows help, it
>> mentions "incremental" and "differential" backups, but I cant find any
>> information on how to actually do it. All I want to do is add one file at
>> a time to my
>
> You could kinda kludge this with Windows Backup.
>
> The saved copy of the file will not be backed asynchronously - that is, a
> copy will not be initiated when you change the file. The file would be
> copied up in a synchronous fashion, according to the schedule for the
> backup job (eg: daily, when idle, etc).