Backup

The problem I had is still not resolved. According to the advice received it should have worked, but has not. As one of the posters said, there "should be" a way around this, but so far nothing ...

No, as my last post said, a day or two ago, I went through the designated process and nothing changed from where I entered this conversation.

As I've said before, the objective is simple. Perhaps you can guide me through it, since I don't imagine it involves more than a few steps.:) If you remember, last time, there was confusion over whether it was for a backup of older files on the external drive or for very recently constructed UPDATES of files on the desktop. The latter is the case. So if I update these folders on Monday, I want them automatically saved on Tuesday.

So we went through a lot of stuff that complicated everything and still didn't do the job.

So this is all I require:

a) I have two folders on my desktop. These have been updated but the copies of them on my external hard drive are of the old versions. So I want to replace those with the updates.

b) these folder updates to be backed on a regular basis (ie I want the updated folders copied from the desktop to the external drive) through using the Backup and Restore function. Then this will be an automatic function to save my remembering to update the folders onto the external drive, something that can easily be forgotten to do manually (by copy and paste)

Here are the screens and the two folders to save on H drive. I can press Restore button. But what exactly does Restore do? And I want to remind you that this exercise is to automatically (DAILY) save UPDATES of files as they are updated. So this is all about updates and automatically getting them to H drive, where I think there was confusion last time we went through all this.

No, I only included the two folders today, when I had time to look at the forum. These two folders were not saved before today. I did go through the procedure some time ago, but I have no idea what happened there.

At any rate. Once I get to this stage, do I now press the Restore button? If so, or if not, what do I do then?

And to be clear. If this on the way to achieving the objective I have outlined above. We want to get there by as quick a route as possible ...

Hello ukthesis. Forgive me for butting in and please understand that I mean no disrespect. In reading through this entire thread I'm sensing you might have some confusion as to exactly what the backup process is all about. It's a two step procedure. First, one must make a copy of the original files, folders, or even the entire hard drive. The copies serve as a backup to the originals. That's all. They do not do anything else until the second step is initiated. And the second step is to restore the damaged, corrupted, deleted originals with those copies.

If the originals have changes made to them every day, then the copies (backups) can be scheduled to update on a daily basis. But again, that's all that happens. So effectively you have two sets of files, folders, or even the entire hard drive. If the originals are never damaged, corrupted, deleted, etc you may never get to use the copies (backups). And if no changes were made to the originals, then no new copies (backups) will be generated.

During the backup process you can specify where the copies (backup) will be stored, like on the H: drive. You can specify how often the copies (backup) are made, like daily, weekly, monthly, etc. You can specify what will be copied (backed up), like one specific folder, two specific folders, etc. But you must initiate the restore process to replace the originals with the copies (backup).

In an ideal world, all of your originals will be updated/changed by you and they will remain perfect. Your copies (backups) of the originals will be done on the schedule you created, but only if you've made changes to the originals. And in an ideal world you will have two perfect sets of the same files or folders ... your originals and the copies (backups).

I sure hope I haven't made things more confusing.