Windows 10: Windows 10 Automatic File/Folder Backup

Discus and support Windows 10 Automatic File/Folder Backup in Windows 10 Network and Sharing to solve the problem; I've been running Windows 10 automatic file/folder backup for quite some time, and it was working fine before the latest massive Windows 10 update. My... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Network and Sharing' started by JerryDVE, Aug 24, 2019.

  1. JerryDVE Win User

    Windows 10 Automatic File/Folder Backup


    I've been running Windows 10 automatic file/folder backup for quite some time, and it was working fine before the latest massive Windows 10 update. My files/folders are directed to be saved every 20 minutes to an external drive connected via a USB port. Now, I could be wrong, but it seems to me that before the Windows 10 update, the app actually did a save every 20 minutes, even if I was in the middle of writing a WORD document and hadn't manually saved and closed it yet. Now, it seems like it's only saving to my external drive 20 minutes after I manually close and save the document. What good is that if my computer crashes while I'm still in the document and haven't manually saved and closed it yet. Everything I've done since the last time I manually saved and closed it won't be saved to the external drive. Is this a change the Windows 10 update made to the automatic file/folder backup? Or is it just my perception that this is how it always worked. I guess I don't understand the point of it if it's not actually saving the work I'm doing as I'm doing it every 20 minutes, but instead waiting until I manually save and close the document. Any explanation of how this is actually supposed to work will be appreciated. Thank you.

    :)
     
    JerryDVE, Aug 24, 2019
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  2. Sean8 Win User

    Automatic backup

    I'm trying to setup automatic backup. In windows 7 I have it setup but it doesn't backup everything in that folder it backs up only stuff that was edited which causes confusion. Is there any easier way to automatically backup everything in a single folder to my external hd
     
    Sean8, Aug 24, 2019
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  3. Ahhzz Win User
    Windows 10 Tweaks

    Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

    Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

    • Open a new Explorer window.
    • Click View in the ribbon.
    • Click Options.
    • Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
    • Click OK


    credit to Lifehacker.
     
    Ahhzz, Aug 24, 2019
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  4. newtekie1 Win User

    Windows 10 Automatic File/Folder Backup

    Automatic backup

    Forget using the automatic backup thing built into Windows, it sucks in my experience.

    Instead use a Robocopy script and use task scheduler to automatically run it every night.

    This is the script I use:

    Code: robocopy <source> <destination> /MIR /B /w:5 /r:5[/quote] Save that to a bat file, then tell task manager to run it every night. That will back up everything in the folder nightly.

    Obviously the source is your source directory, and the destination is your destination directory.

    If you want to back up multiple directory, you can just keep adding lines to the same bat file and they will all run when it is executed.

    So if you wanted to backup your user documents to a folder called Bakcup on the external drive F:, then it would look like:

    Code: robocopy "C:\Users\username\My Documents" F:\Backup\ /MIR /B /w:5 /r:5[/quote] And remember, when you are using a path that contains a space, you need to put the quotes around the path, if the path doesn't contain a space then don't put quotes around it.
     
    newtekie1, Aug 24, 2019
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