Looking for free win7/win10 backup with folder/file checkboxes

Hi,

Win XP professional use to have an excellent backup. They removed it in Win 7. The XP backup was such that I could see the directories and check a checkbox to back them up. It would automatically select all the subdirectories for backup. I could then go in and uncheck selected subdirectories. I could also check select files within the directory. All this would be remembered. It had the same checkbox approach when restoring files/directories. It needs to backup/restore across a home network to another machine. This is all I need. And for now I need it only for Win 7 (although I probably should be backing up my win 10 notebook). I don't have the need to store the job which remembers these settings such that I could have different jobs (one job is fine). I took maybe a week and finally found Comodo which can do this but it is unreliable (I did the restore once and it worked and now I can't restore anything so I have limited backups across machines). I checked AOMEI which is great for image backups (reliable so far) but very cumbersome for file backups as I describe.

I don't have a week to look for one again. I don't suppose anyone knows of a freeware backup software that can do what I describe. For now I am going to check into the software that comes with the "My Passport" external drive I have. If it has this I will post the info and check this issue as solved (lets hope).

Thanks,
John

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Robocopy is built in to Windows and is very fast you can download a free GUI for it if needed

samuria said:

Robocopy is built in to Windows and is very fast you can download a free GUI for it if needed

Thanks Samuria. I am checking into it now.

I tried Comodo on the other machine. It crapped out after taking at least 30 minutes trying to pull up the directory. That one had the latest download update. Maybe I should try the prior one. Maybe I will just remove it

I retried the older version fo Comodo (4.4.1) across the home network. If finally completed the job and returned my file.

I watched a video of the Robocopy GUI. It had a lot more parameter's than I will ever use. I have kept the link to that video in my database reminder system I wrote just in case I need something more comprehensive someday.

Somehow the comodo backup differential backup files are growing much more quickly than I would think they should (probably explaining why it takes so long now that I think of it). I need to figure out what directories to uncheck that are doing that. I checked my user directory. I suspect something in there is growing fast and I will never use it.

I just tried editing the files that Comodo backs up by unchecking the checkboxes. It crapped out. Tried it again and it did it again. I remember it doing that before. I don't trust it. It is only because I can't find another one like it that I use it.

My Passport has an on the fly sync software. I would rather not have backups going while I am working live.

You don't have to use all the switch's for robocopy just running it as mirror is simple and mirrors folders it only copies changed files it's very fast and was built by ms for servers

samuria said:

You don't have to use all the switch's for robocopy just running it as mirror is simple and mirrors folders it only copies changed files it's very fast and was built by ms for servers

Okay, thanks Samuria. I am going to have supper and spend the night learning it. I need to get this resolved.