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720531 2008-11-16 01:37:00 Hi all,

I have 3 hard drives in my computer - one for XP, one for Vista and a data drive.

I am currently using Vista's Complete PC Backup program to back up the XP and Vista drives to one external drive. This is working well.

I also want to back up my data drive to a second external drive (one external drive isn't big enough to hold data from all 3 drives).

From what I can see, I can't have two backup 'jobs' on the same Vista machine (in Vista's backup program), so I'm now looking for a simple backup manager - one that simply copies all files that have been modified (on the data drive) since the previous backup onto the second external drive.

Is there a reliable (free) backup manager that would do this for me?

TIA :)
jwil1 (65)
720532 2008-11-16 01:50:00 Try Synctoy (www.microsoft.com) - Its free and can back up files to a External HDD or any LAN Location.

One of the biggest pains with a lot of backup software is they backup in their own format, meaning you cant replace just one or two files if you want access to them.

But Another One I use sometimes is Handy Backup (www.handybackup.com/) -it allows you to look/ extract single files on any backup location, you can take the files to any PC and open the contents and read the files if required - while its not free it works good, there is a trial to see if you like it or not.
wainuitech (129)
720533 2008-11-16 03:57:00 Toucan(also in a portable version) works well too Blam (54)
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