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Is there a way to enable backups to an external hard drive on Windows 7 Home Premium?

2011-07-23 16:55:00
I'd like to thank Fidelis(Synctoy) and pceasies(DriveImage XML) for their help.
Tina
2011-07-23 17:48:00
Thanks for your feedback, Myke!
Bruce Epper
2011-07-13 23:26:00
You should be able to do this with Windows Backup.  I use Ultimate, so I don't have first-hand experience with the Home editions, but the only thing you may not be able to do is back up to network storage.
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pceasies
2011-07-12 15:44:00
If you want to do disk images (this is a single file that contains all information on your hard drive and is essentially a virtual copy) you should look into DriveImage XML
FIDELIS
2011-07-10 19:46:00
Hello, there are many options to do this by using third party utilities such as the following:http://www.comodo.com/home/data-storage-encryption/comodo-backup.phpOr you could download and use Synctoy:http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=15155With SyncToy it would go like this:-- Download and  install SyncToy-- Backup to an available drive/location-- Set up SyncToy to keep the files in sync -- use the task scheduler to make SyncToy run automaticallyThe advantage of using SyncToy is that you have instant access to all your files without having to restore an entire backup. Another option you have is by using the Robocopy command.  Of course you would have to have a backup already made....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy