Backing up on Hdd

[MoeSabally]

I'm trying to backup my folders to my external hdd hardrive using windows 10, which I selected for the backup, but I clicked on "backup now" and the "last backup" date appeared, and the size still says 0 bytes. Plus the file history folder in my hardrive doesn't have all of my folders. Also do I need to format my hdd again? Because I have alot of other files on that.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Try using veeam backup, the windows backup isn't great. 

 

 

[MoeSabally]

Okay. Though I really want to know, will the folders that I already stored in my hdd will be safe? Or will they have to get erased?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, MoeSabally said:

Okay. Though I really want to know, will the folders that I already stored in my hdd will be safe? Or will they have to get erased?

You can have it backup to a drive with out formatting, so it should be safe, but there should be a backup of that hdd if there is import data on it.

[Light-Yagami]

What's the quantity we're talking about? 

 

W10 offers OneDrive backup, which I use for all my sensitive files. I like it because you can tell it which folders you want to have backed up and it automatically does it, you don't have to copy paste anything in OneDrive folder. Sure - it's not free. But in the past year or so, it's become much easier to use and it's reliable, taking mere seconds to synchronise across systems.

[MoeSabally]

It's around 195gb for the folders, and 2tb for the external hdd.

Edited June 20, 2020 by MoeSabally