Thrush

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Right, so I now have me USB HDD all working and sorted And have already backed up my F: drive (slave HDD inside PC that has all my music on it, plus pics, vids, other data etc)

But already I have addedd to this drive, so my backup is not up to date.... Now I don't wanna copy over stuff EVERY time I add to the drive, so will probably do it every couple of months or so - just to keep up to date back ups.

My question is this : When I back up, I simply highlight everything in the drive (all files and folders) and drag it over to the USB HDD, and it copies everything into it. When I do my next back up, 99% of the stuff I am backing up will already be on the slave drive, so can I just hit "NO TO ALL" when it asks if I want to overwrite, and will it then just copy over the data that isn't on the USB HDD?

Most of my stuff is pretty organised, so there will be folders with files, inside other folders that already exist on the USB HDD - will it write these new folders in?

I took nearly 4hrs to back up 27gb of stuff, so I don't want to have to do 4hrs + every time

BigG_NE

This is a tool that use to replicate folders/files and drives onto another disk. The only downside that I wish it had would be to schedule automated tasks.

http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEMirror/IndexE.html

Thrush

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Will it work the way I suggested tho? Just drag n drop and select NO TO ALL when prompted?

Scottee

Is your USB HDD USB 1 or USB 2?

Thrush

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USB 2

Thrush

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Forgot all about this, but I tried that ICE MIRROR tool today - seems pretty good!

I also realised I can't do the simple copy > NO TO ALL thing as there isn't a NO TO ALL option! There is yes to all, yes to one, cancel and no to one, but with over 3,500 files in 200 folders, clicking NO 3,500 times is not gonna happen

frog

Thrush, saying "no to all" would only copy new files across, say you updated the ID3 tags on an mp3, the mp3 wouldn't get updated.

What O/S are you using ? I am sure good use of copy or xcopy can make this work for you

Thrush

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XP SP2

I downloaded and run the ICE MIRROR that was posted - seems to wokr pretty well. Anything that is new, or has been modified (like ID3 tags for example) it updates to the mirror drive

Whats this "xcopy" tho?

frog

Thrush, it's a DOS command from the old days when PC's didn't have windows or anything pretty like that.
It copies files from one place to another, while traversing directories (or folders as you may know them).

If ice mirror is doing the job fine, don't worry about xcopy

Thrush

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In which case ICE Mirror it is then