Windows 10: Why does Windows recommend backups to only OneDrive & not my external hard drive?

Why do we not get to choose an option to backup to an external hard drive? Why is it only too OneDrive? Is it because they make more money from it, or because they want to see what files we are backing up? How do they know what files are even worthy of needing to be backed up?Please allow me to select my external hard drive!

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Is it possible to use windows backup utility for External Hard drive backup to External Hard drive

Hi, Ari94,

Have you tried using OneDrive for backup?

Install OneDrive on an External Drive

See the following steps:

How to take a full backup of Windows 10 on an External Drive

 

Is it possible to use windows backup utility for External Hard drive backup to External Hard drive

Hi Smittychat, thank you very much for the reply.

There is OneDrive link (Explorer) on computer but I did not use it and do not know how it work. It was there when I had purchased computer last year.

I am not trying to backup computer rather two external hard drives.

 

Backup OneDrive to External Hard Drive

Thanks Christina.

Just a point of clarification. I do not have any problems with the operation of OneDrive.

I just want a copy of my OneDrive contents on an external hard drive.

The Seagate backup software that backs up my computer to the external drive does not backup OneDrive files consistently. (Apparently it reliably backs up files physically present on the computer; not those that are only in the cloud.)

I just want to make a full backup of my OneDrive to the external drive.

Thanks

Dave