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<blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 578352" data-attributes="member: 6277">incremental backup is the key. It only backs up what had changed instead of starting over with a totally new backup each time.&nbsp; But like Paul said SyncToy is a easy way to do simple backups. Works well if you want to do just My Documents to My Photos.&nbsp; I set it up for my wife when she was teaching.&nbsp; Had a folder on her school computer, our home desktop and her personal laptop labeled &quot;My School Files&quot; using synctoy. She could work on a file at home and using synctoy she would sync it to a USB drive and carry it to school and sync the USB to that computer. I had a network link so that the desktop and laptop would be synced.&nbsp; The nice thing was that when her school computer melted down and the IT guys came in and told her that all her files would be lost he was surprised because she was not upset on losing all her files.&nbsp; She told him she had a daily backup in 4 different places.&nbsp; &nbsp;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Don Kuykendall_RIP, post: 578352, member: 6277"] [COLOR=#333333]incremental backup is the key. It only backs up what had changed instead of starting over with a totally new backup each time. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]But like Paul said SyncToy is a easy way to do simple backups. Works well if you want to do just My Documents to My Photos. I set it up for my wife when she was teaching. Had a folder on her school computer, our home desktop and her personal laptop labeled "My School Files" using synctoy. She could work on a file at home and using synctoy she would sync it to a USB drive and carry it to school and sync the USB to that computer. I had a network link so that the desktop and laptop would be synced. The nice thing was that when her school computer melted down and the IT guys came in and told her that all her files would be lost he was surprised because she was not upset on losing all her files. She told him she had a daily backup in 4 different places. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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