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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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2TB+ of regularly updated gaming clips? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a couple 1TB+ folders between two different setups where I continually clip a lot of cool or funny gaming moments, thousands of them over the past several years.

The last time I tried “backing them up” (just by copying and pasting in Windows Explorer from folder to external HD) took a whole night, which is fine… but the following week when I tried to “update” it with just the new clips it wanted to do the entire overnight process again.

Which brings me to my primary question: What is the simplest “incremental/differential” software solution I could use for this specific case? Ideally free but I don’t mind a relatively affordable one-off payment either if the UI is really nice; I’m a sucker for good design.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Try FreeFileSync for this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Agreed. I recently tried it not long ago and it's the best backup software I've used. My only regret is not getting it sooner.

Also doubles as a viewer to see what files/folders contain a the most data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That’s pretty high praise, I’ll look into it today. Thanks a bunch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Okay, I’m definitely looking into this one as well after also seeing it come up a bunch. Thank you!