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Best_man23

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2. Depending on the capacity of your SSD

Wed Oct 27, 2021, 12:39 PM

Oct 2021

When you copy the data over to an existing file, Windows File Explorer will ask if you want to overwrite files with the same name even if the dates are different. All you have to do is click no. If you performing an automated backup, I'm not sure if Windows will just copy only the new files.

I'd recommend doing Child-Parent-Grandparent backup on an external device (not sure if your SSD is internal or external). Normally, the "Child" is your incremental data, the "Parent" is an end of week backup, and the "Grandparent" is backup on a separate device or on cloud storage. I use a modified version of this method by date each week and the backup goes on an external device. I keep around 2 months of data, then delete the oldest before I copy the latest data to the drive.

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So, I have my entire business data/history file on my PC - about 25GB [View all] OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2021 OP

In theory absolutely yes it's possible ... it's called a differential backup Hugh_Lebowski Oct 2021 #1

Copy and Paste. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2021 #3

Lol okay. Try copy/paste again and I believe Windows will pop up with a warning Hugh_Lebowski Oct 2021 #4

If I make changes to my office PC today, I will redo the back-up and see if this works. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2021 #7

And read the dialog box about overwriting the existing files with the newer ones. LastDemocratInSC Oct 2021 #12

Depending on the capacity of your SSD Best_man23 Oct 2021 #2

It's an external HD. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2021 #6

Not An Answer - Just An Odd Response wyn borkins Oct 2021 #5

Might be easier just to image the disk periodically or to use a cloud based service like Dropbox. waterwatcher123 Oct 2021 #8

Thanks for the response! OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2021 #9

Glad it was somewhat helpful (lots of ways to accomplish this process). waterwatcher123 Nov 2021 #15

And keep multiple copies of the backups in different locations if you can. LastDemocratInSC Oct 2021 #13

The XCOPY and ROBOCOPY commands will do this PSPS Oct 2021 #10

As Hugh said above canetoad Oct 2021 #11

I will check it out! Much thanks! OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2021 #14