Quantcast
Backing up external drive. Windows 7. - Beyond.ca - Car Forums
Results 1 to 4 of 4

Thread: Backing up external drive. Windows 7.

  1. #1
    Join Date
    Aug 2002
    Location
    Calgary, Alberta
    My Ride
    Lexus IS
    Posts
    189
    Rep Power
    0

    Default Backing up external drive. Windows 7.

    Hello everyone!

    I have an external which I would like to back up, and back up regularly at that. Sure, it's easy enough to copy for the first time, but how does one do true backups for incremental changes?

    I heard this is simple enough for Mac's time machine, but it's for a laptop that runs Windows 7 and the External Drive is consequently formatted NTFS. Backup and Restore cannot seem to do it on its own.

    A Google search yields mostly "backing up your internal drive into external one" - obviously not what I am looking for.
    Those that do show up that might be useful, date back to 2007
    http://forums.cnet.com/7723-7588_102...al-hard-drive/

    Willing to try the above recommendation, but I'm curious as to what people here have used.

    many thanks!

    R.

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Location
    calgary
    My Ride
    CLK 55 / 2g Eclipse / EP3
    Posts
    4,422
    Rep Power
    22

    Default

    try syncbac or cobian backup

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Apr 2004
    Location
    Calgary
    Posts
    2,093
    Rep Power
    43

    Default

    can you explain a bit more? what do you want to back up your external drive to, another external drive?

    or do you mean simply backing up your laptop to your external drive?

  4. #4
    Join Date
    Aug 2002
    Location
    Calgary, Alberta
    My Ride
    Lexus IS
    Posts
    189
    Rep Power
    0

    Default

    I have a laptop which runs video/photo editing software (this should not really be relevant, but thought I'd mention it anyway)

    ALL media is in an external drive connected via eSata. There is no media whatsoever in the laptop that runs the Operating System and Editing Program. This is common practice in the studio I used to work for: Media drive separate from the drive that runs the OS.

    Advantages: Makes moving from Edit suite to mobile laptop easy enough. And, should your OS crash, your work does not disappear completely.

    However, I can only backup internal drives using the preloaded programs in this laptop. What I wish to do is copy the media drive into another media drive - there seems to be no capability in Windows 7 for that. The old studio I worked for had Macs and as far as I know, they relied on Time Machine. Also, someone else always did it for me - I only concerned myself with working on projects. Now that I'm trying to become independent, well, I have to now independently learn tech stuff as well. It's a simple question, I know, and I kinda feel stupid for asking it. But sometimes the simplest things don't have obvious answers. Backing up the PC itself? Very easy and standard practice. Backing up an external drive? Info I found is from 2007 as I said. I'm sure there are better ones out there now. ? or is there?

    So yes, Bottomline: I wish to copy the external hard drive that holds only media... to another external drive.
    Last edited by randedge; 10-08-2012 at 04:14 PM.

Similar Threads

  1. FS/FT: External 80GB USB drive. Looking for small SATA notebook drive.

    By nobb in forum Computer Hardware & Peripherals
    Replies: 0
    Latest Threads: 01-05-2010, 07:45 PM
  2. FS: 60 GB External Hard Drive & External DVD Burner

    By jay.low in forum Computer Hardware & Peripherals
    Replies: 2
    Latest Threads: 04-27-2009, 07:30 PM
  3. WTB: HP Media Drive External Hard Drive

    By eblend in forum Computer Hardware & Peripherals
    Replies: 0
    Latest Threads: 11-27-2008, 11:04 AM
  4. burning or "backing up" an unknown file type .. help!

    By badMotoFinga in forum Computers, Consoles, and other Electronics
    Replies: 6
    Latest Threads: 03-04-2005, 11:12 AM
  5. Backing up GT4??

    By Ek9Max in forum Computers, Consoles, and other Electronics
    Replies: 11
    Latest Threads: 03-02-2005, 04:53 PM

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •