Windows 10 backup solution??

[Olivejuice]

Wanted to throw an idea out there to see how terrible it is, here's the situation:

 

One of my parental units had a laptop drive fail recently. Thankfully everything was recovered and replaced, however she is now scarred from the experience and wants to have her data backed up on a regular basis. After some late night "research" she went out and bought an external WD hard drive/backup solution. However, she forgets to use it and complains that it's "too complicated" and so we're back to square one. (She's 0% "tech savvy") 

 

- I can't add a second drive to her laptop as it only has one SATA port.

- I tried scheduling windows to backup to a networked hard drive but her router's software for this is pretty terrible and I can't get it to work. 

- She doesnt "trust" cloud storage because big brother will "look at her data"

- I'm afraid of just YOLOing it by leaving a low-profile USB drive attatched as she's broken off 2 of her fitbit dongles already and those are pretty small

 

So then I came across this: 

 

https://www.newegg.com/p/0EP-00CS-00004?Description=m.2 nvme to sata adapter&cm_re=m.2_nvme_to_sata_adapter-_-0EP-00CS-00004-_-Product

 

Would it be possible to have two m.2 drives in Raid 1 or would windows have problems recognising two drives from one SATA interface?

 

(Also, I'm aware that the R/W speeds would effectively be halved but considering she's spent the last few years on a 5400 RPM 2.5" drive I dont think she'll really notice)

 

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX500-500GB-2280SS-Internal/dp/B077SQ8J1V/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?keywords=500gb+b+key+m.2&qid=1566513383&s=gateway&sr=8-2-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEyVDk0U1ZUT1NKOVRIJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNDYzNzk4M00zSEJIWENHTlVOOCZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwNjQ1MDEyMUpaSVUwSTFTRTRFTCZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=

 

(Obligatory am open to suggestions any ideas are welcome) 

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

Does she care about restoring the data at any time or does she just want to store and forget, only to bring it back later?

 

If she wants to store and forget, then you can create a shortcut to something that automates this process. Two solutions I'm seeing are:

• Make a PowerShell or a .bat file that just calls robocopy.
• Using a third party tool that allows you to make a shortcut that takes in an argument loading the job to do.

Then all you have to do is plug in the USB drive, launch the shortcut, and away it goes.

[Olivejuice]

3 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

Does she care about restoring the data at any time or does she just want to store and forget, only to bring it back later?

 

If she wants to store and forget, then you can create a shortcut to something that automates this process. Two solutions I'm seeing are:

• Make a PowerShell or a .bat file that just calls robocopy.
• Using a third party tool that allows you to make a shortcut that takes in an argument loading the job to do.

Then all you have to do is plug in the USB drive, launch the shortcut, and away it goes.

Unfortunately, even that, is too much for her - she needs a "set it and forget it" solution. With the W/D drive, all she had to do was plug it in and it would prompt her to start a backup. To put it in perspective, she thinks using Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V instead of File -> copy and File -> paste is wizardry.  

[Mira Yurizaki]

6 minutes ago, Olivejuice said:

Unfortunately, even that, is too much for her - she needs a "set it and forget it" solution. With the W/D drive, all she had to do was plug it in and it would prompt her to start a backup. To put it in perspective, she thinks using Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V instead of File -> copy and File -> paste is wizardry.  

You can use Task Scheduler to automatically launch the solution.

Edited August 22, 2019 by Mira Yurizaki

[F___M]

is it windows 10? 7?

[F___M]

oh. 10. sorry, didn't read the title.

Windows 10 (and 7) has a backup solution built in. In control panel, open backup and restore(windows 7).  Have the external drive plugged in.  follow the prompts, let windows decide what to backup. Schedule it however you want. Run the backup. Default will run weekly on the schedule you choose.  If a backup is missed, the notification bar will alert her to run it. It's a no brainer.