Windows 10: Has One Drive matured enough to be used as an Instant Backup for Docs.

I would like to be able to save every document to "Both" Local -and - OneDrive at the nearly the same time. In the event i am not connected to the internet, I would be OK with waiting for the sync. I recently ran across several How To's showing various options but they still sounded more like a "Sync when OneDrive was ready" and those little green checkmarks don't always appear next to every document in a timely manner.

I have never been able to put my faith in the 'cloud' as every time i do, I end up losing something important. I gave up trying a couple years back but thought maybe OneDrive had matured enough to be reliable now

I have seen methods of setting what to Sync and where and how to make OneDrive my default Save location with the Local copy being synced down from the Cloud. I would prefer clicking "Save" to go to local My Documents AND to Onedrive at nearly the same time if it can be done.

I got tired of trying every new tutorial on the web to see if i could make this happen. This is something i want only with My Documents and I thought maybe someone had already been able to get something like this to work. I would appreciate it if anyone could pass along their ideas on how to best accomplish this. Whatever works reliably and with the least time delay possible.

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Using network hard drive for backup

It depends what sort of backup you want to do. If you're happy just backing up regular files, then there are a bazillion (really, that many!) different bits of freeware to do that. There is a good list here:

Download Back Up Tools for Windows - MajorGeeks

and pretty much all of them can do network backups. Some even have fancy options like encryption. Really, the most useful thing is just being able to schedule them and know they ran OK.

You may also want to make a system image backup too, and you'll find that software in the very same list.

I don't have Windows 8 as yet, so I'm afraid I can't suggest any for that platform. Personally, I use Clonezilla for image backups.

 

Backup using file history

Thanks Robeline

I was going by other advice and articles that suggest that backing up under Update and security/backup is now the way to go. I will try your suggestion.

Doug

 

Backup using file history

Hi Doug,

There are limited options when using backup and restore. We suggest that you create a full backup using Windows 10 system image tool, you need to connect external storage with enough available space. See steps below:

• Open Control Panel.
• Click on System and Security.
• Click on Backup and Restore (Windows 7).
• On the left pane, click the Create a system image link.
• Under Where do you want to save the backup?, select the
  On a hard disk option.
• Using the "On a hard disk" drop-down menu, select the storage to save the backup.
• Click the Start backup button.

Note: Once you completed the steps, the wizard will proceed to create a full backup of your system, including everything that is stored on the main drive, as well as the system reserved partition.