How to backup drive?

[PholkLorr]

I store my data on my internal HDD. I just bought a pHD for backup purposes. I want to backup everything on my internal HDD and set it to auto backup every week.

Unfortunately, Windows backup saves everything in one big backup file. So i cant just go in and browse the contents.

And if i want to make my PHD look exactly like my HDD, i can just copy and paste everything. That's fine, but then how do i make it update files and folders automatically every week instead of manually copying and pasting everything again?

 

[GenerationX]

I store my data on my internal HDD. I just bought a pHD for backup purposes. I want to backup everything on my internal HDD and set it to auto backup every week.

Unfortunately, Windows backup saves everything in one big backup file. So i cant just go in and browse the contents.

And if i want to make my PHD look exactly like my HDD, i can just copy and paste everything. That's fine, but then how do i make it update files and folders automatically every week instead of manually copying and pasting everything again?

I thought those big external hdd got some software to backup in schedule?
normally i dont backup. i use shadow copies nia.. but sometime i will make multiple copies if the file is important.

 

[tungsten2]

Look for Sync Toys from Microsoft

Do note, backup means you always have 2 copies.

Having only 1 copies is not backing up.

 

[kandinsky]

If upgrading to Win8 is an option, there's the built in File History feature:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-SG/windows-8/how-use-file-history
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dn448546.aspx

For win 7, maybe can try this: http://ax64.com/tour-product/