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kurandoinu:
I just bought my mum an external HD for Christmas as she managed to write about 10mb of files on to CDs and DVDs all the time and costs herself a fortune. Problem is the one I bought came with 'One Touch Backup' which has turned out to be a wee bit shoddy- Vista wants permission every time to use it, the interface is hideous and not user friendly, and you can only backup from one place at a time.

I want something that I can install on her laptop and tell it to backup certain folders (photos, videos off her camcorder etc). An ideal one would be something like Time Machine on OSX, where you tell it to exclude certain folders and it backs everything else up, but I just want something that looks for new files in certain locations and backs those up.

Any suggestions are welcome. I don't mind paying a bit for the software, but free would of course be better. I'm not too knowledgeable on this stuff as I'm primarily a mac person.

kureshii:
I'm using SyncBack, and loving it. Free, easy to set up and automate. Despite the name, it does backup as well (which is really just 1-way sync, anyway)

For those who prefer portable apps, you can use uniextract to extract just the app files without installing it. I've had no issues running it like this so far.

And although this should be obvious, I'm going to preempt some complaints and state now that SyncBack Freeware is the version you're looking for, so I hope not to see any posts about "WTF you talking about there's only a trial version, shareware FTL". If you don't see it, scroll down like all sensible users would (or just do a webpage search).

shadowmaniac:
I used a different program a while back but can't remember the name. Still, based on what Kureshii said, Syncback is times easier to use.

Anyway, unrelated but I'd recommend a flash drive for her; this way she can carry her stuffs everywhere with her and is more compact than an external HDD.

kurandoinu:
she has a flash drive too, but this is for complete backups. Ill try that app out tomorrow. :3

Lumiinous:
What's wrong with the one built into Windows?

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