Ack... Help... File backup in Windows

[Lost]

No one's answering on the MS forum. Because they can sense a Linux user from a mile away.

I want to take a USB drive with my older backed up files/folders on it, shove it into my laptop, and have Windows push all my newer files/folders onto the USB. Essentially a simpler way to backup/mirror files.

So far, the only magic Windows (8.1) wants to create for me is a recovery drive. Seems like I might have to download third-party software, but that never goes well.

While I'm yelling at tech...
No, Microsoft... I don't want to be your guinea pig and install Windows 10 before you work out the bugs. Stop spamming please.

 

[dave61]

That recovery drive will contain your updated programs and files
Another way is to back it up online
Im sorry to say if you have Windows 8.1 you are going to install Windows 10

They are getting very close to making Windows 7 and 8.1 install 10 whether you want it or not

The only way to stop it is go into the registry and stop all updates and upgrades

 

[MrScaryZ]

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No one's answering on the MS forum. Because they can sense a Linux user from a mile away.

I want to take a USB drive with my older backed up files/folders on it, shove it into my laptop, and have Windows push all my newer files/folders onto the USB. Essentially a simpler way to backup/mirror files.

So far, the only magic Windows (8.1) wants to create for me is a recovery drive. Seems like I might have to download third-party software, but that never goes well.

While I'm yelling at tech...
No, Microsoft... I don't want to be your guinea pig and install Windows 10 before you work out the bugs. Stop spamming please.

You can write a script to do this easily in powershell

 

[stevegmu]

Just get a Mac...

 

[Lost]

Im sorry to say if you have Windows 8.1 you are going to install Windows 10

Looks like the next deadline is July. Won't wait that long though.

For now, I'll play with the cloud settings and get an updated recovery drive going (last one was June, woah).

 

[Zamazam]

I purchased one of the 2 Terabyte external USB 3.0 drives. Back my laptops onto it and put it in the firesafe.

 

[PuffPuffPass]

Just get a Mac...

Hahaha I have 3 bookmarks on my Win7 box. I use them to reset my SO's admin account for her Mac when she locks herself out. That's as Mac as I want to be.

Friends don't let friends use machines that require subscription software.

 

[vuJim]

I have no idea how to do what you want to do under MS-Win. Never cared enough about what I had in any MS-Win partition to want to save it.

You could boot into Linux, mount the NTFS partition from MS-Win, and use any number of Linux tools to do it, though. That's what I might be tempted to do.

 

[CurlyxCracker]

I'm not 100% sure if it what you're looking for but this is what I use Dropbox for...

 

[stevegmu]

Hahaha I have 3 bookmarks on my Win7 box. I use them to reset my SO's admin account for her Mac when she locks herself out. That's as Mac as I want to be.

Friends don't let friends use machines that require subscription software.

Never heard of required subscription software for Macs, and I've been exclusively using Macs since the first eMac...

 

[PuffPuffPass]

Never heard of required subscription software for Macs, and I've been exclusively using Macs since the first eMac...

Lightroom

 

[stevegmu]

Lightroom

She locks herself out of LightRoom? I'm still using version 1.3.1. Never had an issue...

 

[PuffPuffPass]

She locks herself out of LightRoom? I'm still using version 1.3.1. Never had an issue...

Oh no. She locks herself out of admin control lol

She went to apply some updates, and couldn't remember her password. Then had a keychain issue.

I lived in hell via phone for a week. Until I convinced her I could walk her through it. So I saved the info, because I know I'm going to have to do this again in the future

I really like Mac, don't think otherwise. But I have so much software that I still use on my PC. I would need to mortgage the house to get a Mac with everything installed.

 

[stevegmu]

Oh no. She locks herself out of admin control lol

She went to apply some updates, and couldn't remember her password. Then had a keychain issue.

I lived in hell via phone for a week. Until I convinced her I could walk her through it. So I saved the info, because I know I'm going to have to do this again in the future

I really like Mac, don't think otherwise. But I have so much software that I still use on my PC. I would need to mortgage the house to get a Mac with everything installed.

Not remembering passwords isn't a Mac specific problem. I just use the same one on all my computers and iDevices. Passwords for home computers are pointless, in my opinion..
I have a developer's version of Tiny XP Black I use whenever I need to run PC software, installed on a BootCamp partition. Runs super fast.

 

[PuffPuffPass]

Not remembering passwords isn't a Mac specific problem. I just use the same one on all my computers and iDevices. Passwords for home computers are pointless, in my opinion..
I have a developer's version of Tiny XP Black I use whenever I need to run PC software, installed on a BootCamp partition. Runs super fast.

She got owned, hard. She password protects everything now. And paranoid isn't quite strong enough to describe her.

I rarely password protect any device now, other than my routers. Even that can be circumvented.

I don't keep national secrets or financials on my devices. So no biggy for me.

 

[lordmage]

i use freefile sync you set folders and where to copy them and and you can set it to either one way or mirror. so you can tell it files remove from source will be removed on the other end and newer files will be copied over with in the space allowed.