Windows 10: Easy backup of user/app data, desktop, downloads,

Hi, I have to administer my moms computer remotely and she doesnt have an external drive or usb stick. I set her up with DropBox and could possibly setup a WebDav server for her but I need to backup her user data/prodile so I could restore to this machine or another one. She mainly has files on desktop and downloads, and then uses apps like firefox, libreoffice, zoom, skype, and acrobat reader. Im not really a windows user so dont know what the easiest way to do this would be. I set her up with Firefox sync so i can at least keep the browser info easily accessed. I tries to get her to only keep files in DropBox but things inevitably end up on desktop and downloads

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Easy backup of user/app data, desktop, downloads,

Hi, I have to administer my moms computer remotely and she doesn’t have an external drive or usb stick. I set her up with DropBox and could possibly setup a WebDav server for her but I need to backup her user data/prodile so I could restore to this machine or another one. She mainly has files on desktop and downloads, and then uses apps like firefox, libreoffice, zoom, skype, and acrobat reader. I’m not really a windows user so don’t know what the easiest way to do this would be. I set her up with Firefox sync so i can at least keep the browser info easily accessed. I tries to get her to only keep files in DropBox but things inevitably end up on desktop and downloads

 

Easy backup of user/app data, desktop, downloads,

Does she have a laptop or desktop PC? For either you could create a separate backup partition on the main disk and use Macrium Reflect Free to schedule full system backups to that partition. However, this dos not protect against disk failures. If she has a desktop, a better solution is to install another internal drive or connect and external USB drive and schedule Reflect backups to that. You can also control these backups remotely.

I use the Reflect backup to an external drive method to backup my father's PC.

 

[WPSL] Backup app data

Hi All,

I have a Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight app in the store for quite some time now. I recently noticed that the automatic backup for my app doesn't work.

• The app is listed in my phones (W10M) backup options and automatic backup is enabled
• Disable automatic backup is not checked in the WMAppManifest.xml
• Setting "Windows can include this product’s data in automatic backups to OneDrive." in the Dev Center is checked
• All of the apps data is written to Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder
• Using ISETool I'm able to get all the data

What am I possibly missing here?

Note: This question was posted in the MSDN forums before but MSFT suggested to post this here:

MSDN forum article

Regards,

Stephan