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Sure, I run it manual all the time. Just put the folders (browse) left and right and off you go. But you have to first copy your initial folder to the 2TB drive. This is a sync program. If you only work on the file in the system, it will add/delete the files in the backup as you have done in the system's original. The idea is NOT to touch the backup folder once it is first copied to the backup but let Allway Sync do the job.
Suggest you try it with a little sample. Learning by doing - LOL.
I am fond of Karen's replicator - does everything I need and it's small and simple.
I find Windows file/folder backup ok if your backup sets are relatively small ~5GB so that when a full backup set is made it doesn't take "forever".
I'm cautious of 3rd party backup software that uses spanned zip files as opposed to zip files which can be independently upzipped (like with Windows). This way I think you stand a better chance of recovering your data if one of the files gets corrupted.
Last edited by mjf; 18 Dec 2011 at 15:49. Reason: Typo
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