I personally hate backup programs which "magically" lock your files up onto a hard drive with a proprietary format that if you lose the header of the file, or you change backup software or whatever random things happens (say your back up drive corrupts)...
There is a ultra simple and free way in DOS... well.. windows command prompt now.
Now, I'm not sure if this works in windows 7 or lower.. but it works in windows 8.1.. I know they added a lot of dos functionality back into windows 8.. I think this may have been one of them.
Now brace yourself.. this is the procedure:
1. open command prompt (right click on the windows button in windows 8.1) - command prompt
2. type this:
xcopy "folder you are copying from" /s /d /y "folder you are backing up to"
(only type the red stuff)
Example:
xcopy "G:\Daniel & The Revelation Series" /s /d /y "H:\Daniel & The Revelation Series"
So what does it do?
/s = copies all directories
/d = copies the files where dates are different
/y = answer yes to everything (overwrites, etc)
optional:
/q = quite mode so it doesn't show you what is happening (I wouldn't do that)
If you are ultra lazy (like me) you can create a batch file (right click on desktop make text document, rename it to .bat and paste that command into it.
If that doesn't make sense... comment, I will try to clarify.
that is all.
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