Depends what you think your data is worth.
Brian

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On 11/10/18 11:33, newshound wrote:
On 11/10/2018 10:32, Broadback wrote:
I have been using a Maxtor external drive, sadly it has stopped working.
As the drive does not like windows 10 I cannot test it easily.
I have a desktop computer with 931Gb drive of which 103Gb is in use. I
would dearly like a simple, well easy to operate, backup and restore
software and a suitable external drive. All help welcomed. TIA

I find little batch files based on robocopy are very convenient. For
example I back up the data on a couple of laptops to their SD card, then
swap these out periodically as "offsite copies" kept in the workshop.

This one is something else, it takes all the data on a USB stick and
backs it up to a windows machine. (Obviously, the stick *has* to be the H
drive). The clever bit is the /MIR switches. I forget what they all do,
but this includes just copying files which have changed. The pause is to
let you see that it has worked.

robocopy H:\ c:\Users\me\documents\H_backup /MIR
pause


I gave up with local backups and went to

https://tresorit.com/cloud-storage

£12/month for 1TB, but zero knowledge encryption, Swiss DC and works on
everything (even Linux - the client there is fully fledged).