Windows 10: Why do I have 2 places for backup, I deleted all backups I have then made it only in...

And again in F: the drive that I chose to back up to it, now there's a folder called "FileHistory" that is huge in size, and there's again this folder with a special icon among the folders in F: that its name is like my computer's name SamDesktop2019 and its size is 0 kb, am I backing up my data twice?, should I delete one of them, I deleted both days ago with the help of Google and disabled backup for both the new UI and the Windows 7 UI and now I'm back with 2 folders, how to have only one?

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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.

 

Need a Backup Solution

Automatic backup

newtekie1 helped alot with what he suggested. Been using it for almost 2 weeks now works awesome.

 

Backup skipped

Hi Ken,

For us to better isolate your concern, we need additional information. Kindly answer the following questions below:

• Are your backing up files or creating a system image?
  
• Are you getting any error messages?
  
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?
  

In the meantime, we suggest deleting the backup you created and create a new one. Click this
article
and follow the steps on how to create a backup.

We'll keep an eye out for your response.