Personal data backup software

[cotneit]

I'm looking for software to backup my photos, videos and other sucks-to-lose files. I don't want backups to be saved as a disk image though, just as plain files, like if I were to just copy-paste them.

Basically what I want to do is keep one copy of data from my SSD on my internal HDD, and from time to push it to my external HDD.
At the moment I found just one program that suits my needs (Personal Backup), and while I mostly like it, I generally like to know my options before I set it up and forget about it.

I would really appreciate your recommendations!

[burh4n]

11 minutes ago, cotneit said:

I'm looking for software to backup my photos, videos and other sucks-to-lose files. I don't want backups to be saved as a disk image though, just as plain files, like if I were to just copy-paste them.

For no money and without installing anything more:

Task scheduler + PowerShell + robocopy

 

Set task scheduler to run when you're not using your PC, and build a .ps1 script to run robocopy to copy your files to a backup directory. You can even setup robocopy to use multi-threading.

[Kilrah]

FreeFileSync, or it you want to be able to select specific things SyncBack Free.

[cotneit]

Thanks! Guess I will settle with FreeFileSync. Also tried rsync under WSL, but it's just slower. As for robocopy, ps and cmd are just not my things, though I understand why it's a good choice.

Personal Backup, though quite versatile, is just laggy and has kind of messy GUI