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Questions about performing a manual backup by copying certain folders.
Windows backup wizard sucks because it keeps telling me I don't have enough space on my 1TB HDD to create a system image (if someone could help with that, awesome).
I have 4 drives in my PC. A 120GB SSD for Windows, a 2TB HDD for storage, a 256GB SSD because I had a coupon and some spending cash (lol), and a 1 TB HDD for backups.
I am tired of messing around with Windows Backup and Restore so I figured that I would just copy and paste the important foldersto the HDD. I want to copy everything in my user folder (the one that has My Documents, My Music, ect.) and I also want to copy game saves and a few programs that are not easy to replace.
I have a few questions. I guess I will just list them.
1) Should I just copy and paste folders to the HDD? Is there a better solution out there that is relatively noob friendly?
2) What folders do you suggest I do that for?
3) How do I backup Firefox and Chrome settings and bookmarks?
4) What types of other things should I backup that I might not think of or that you think are also important?
5) If I do this every week, how do I keep from creating duplicates or overwriting folders with identical folders? I know when I copy and paste a folder it asks me to merge stuff but it doesn't ask me to skip any folder I already copied and pasted.