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mikeypnz

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#289325 29-Aug-2021 16:26
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We have two 1TB Seagate external drives.  One is the main drive and the other is to be the backup.  The software that comes with the drive will not allow me to backup from a removalable USB drive.  I have been on google and tried three, but issues with licencing and one made huge zip files.  I just need one that copies the files (flat) onto the other drive, but keeps a track of the files to manage duplicates and changes etc.  I did have an old Seagate backup for Windows XP (back in the day) that did do this.   I'm using Windows 10 Backup already that backs up the computers documents etc onto another external drive.

 

 

 

What software is about that works in this case?

 

 

 

Mike


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  #2768432 29-Aug-2021 16:59
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I am not sure if I understand your question correctly - but I use this (free version) to sync my backups from my desktop to both my unRAID server and also a EXT HDD:

 

 

 

https://www.2brightsparks.com/welcome/backup/freeware.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwvaeJBhCvARIsABgTDM7I-tsui7OyrVF7D2uqcD_SqRQEgzKpfL3ePGCbNxX7FuwxUwqCOkoaAgJmEALw_wcB




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  #2768444 29-Aug-2021 17:21
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FreeFileSync is pretty good for this, and has move detection and versioning which are generally rare capabilities in free backup and sync software.


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  #2768540 29-Aug-2021 22:57
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Thanks FreeFileSync worked exactly as I needed.  




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  #2768643 30-Aug-2021 09:53
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For those looking at a hardware option, you might consider somthing like this USB dock / cloning station: Orico Dual Bay 2.5" & 3.5" SATA to USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Docking Station Duplicator Clone Function For HDD SSD

 

 





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  #2768663 30-Aug-2021 10:35
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Restic does incremental, block based, encrypted backups. It's command line but easy enough to use. Much better than any sync tool.


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