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External HDD question(s)
Okay, so we got an external HDD (finally) to have backups of both pictures and important documents (as you can imagine my dad has a mess of important docs), so we got one recently. What my dad wanted is an automated way of backing up the stuff so he doesn't get copies mixed up, and the first thing that came to mind was using a .bat file. Couple questions on that though, first, is there a better (yet still free) way to do this, and second, would it be totally overwrite or just check for changes. The reason I ask the second one, is say he backs up X document on Monday. On Wednesday he opens the local copy, makes some changes, saves it, plugs in the HDD, and runs the backup utility, does it make that change on the HDD copy, or does it just see that the file exists already.

Also am I right in assuming when I pop it in I'm gonna want to format it as NTFS?

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QuickView: External HDD question(s) - cds0528 3/27/2007 04:22
Yes I would do NTFS and I would use the microsoft power toy ... - byerspc 3/27/2007 04:57
another thing...fyi synctoy can also backup over the network... - byerspc 3/27/2007 04:59
sync toy sounds pretty good, problem is, I try to install it... - cds0528 3/27/2007 08:42

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