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Looking for Backup Software
I am looking for a simple piece of software which ideally will:
1. copy all my files (Documents, Pictures, Music, Movies and a few others) on to an external USB HD, and:
2. now and again (when I ask it to) will automatically find any individual files that have changed and re-copy/overwrite them, and only them, (in full), and:
3. if needed, allow me to manually copy back some or all of the files individually.
Files will rarely change. I don't need incremental backup *, compression, encryption, the Cloud, nor scheduling of update times (my backup drive is normally kept off) but there would be no disadvantage if these features were in included but optional. (Software like this is apparently called “Continuity Software”.)
* By incremental backup (which I don’t need) I mean the type which creates an additional backup of only the parts of a file that have changed, accumulating a separate part for every change to a file.
I have looked at Capterra's site:
Best Business Continuity Software | 2015 Reviews of the Most Popular Systems
and found 7 programs which seem potentially suitable. They all cost between £30 and £70 and are to be installed on the computer (that is, not subject to a subscription).
The names are: Fastbackup (Ahmed Software), Genie Timeline Home 2015 or Genie Backup Manager 9.0 Home Edition (Genie9), Backup Platinum (Softlogica), InstaBackup (Stellar Information Systems), Handy Backup Standard 2014 (Novosoft), Uranium Backup (Nanosystems).
Can anyone rate any of these? What do you use?
Thanks
PS @MAX SyncUp had these features but messed up my computer (Windows produced a red/yellow triangle saying it was incompatible). I want to go for established commercial firms and paid-for software.