System Backup

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Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

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Unfortunately these did not work - the VSS issue keeps on coming up even though hot processing/hot backup is in use. I think the issue is using a remote hard drive. All of my major PC failures to date have been caused by hard drive failure so there is little point is partitioning my main drive and using it as the backup.

I will keep looking for a backup program.

Thanks

Garry

I use Sync Toy. It is a free program from Microsoft.

It allows me to backup whatever files I like, and then just refresh the files that have changed since the last back-up.

Have a look. It might do what you are after.

I've been using Gelsoft's Synchromagic for years and it's worked well, if a bit clunky to use.

I've just tried Cobian but it's so slow compared to Synchromagic I'm going to bin it.

Synctoy seems to work well but doesn't schedule which is a small pain.

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Originally Posted by WhiteD3

I've been using Gelsoft's Synchromagic for years and it's worked well, if a bit clunky to use.

I've just tried Cobian but it's so slow compared to Synchromagic I'm going to bin it.

Synctoy seems to work well but doesn't schedule which is a small pain.

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Correct me if I am wrong but Synctoy just copies files to another location but it will not overwrite windows files that are in use when doing a recovery. Therefore you cannot system files that have become corrupt.

Garry

I'd say you're right but I don't use it for that. Just synching working project directories between my laptop, server and home PC.

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Originally Posted by garrycol

Unfortunately these did not work - the VSS issue keeps on coming up even though hot processing/hot backup is in use. I think the issue is using a remote hard drive. All of my major PC failures to date have been caused by hard drive failure so there is little point is partitioning my main drive and using it as the backup.

I will keep looking for a backup program.

Thanks

Garry

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Dunno if this is the case, but I was reading about another backup program, and it worked most reliably if the remote drive has an IP address rather than connecting via the network share, of course that's only if it's a network drive.