First, please don’t mind my technical jargon, I’m a regular consumer not a pro. Don’t work with and save data daily, just need to have a simple and easy enough way to do this without becoming an expert :)
Here is my situation and my problem (if it is!): I have saved all my personal data (under 1TB) of all sort since years in an external HDD, and just recently bought an external SSD (SamsungT7 shield) as another backup media, ext-HDD would become now the final destination. So, historically, whenever I have modified a file or have new files on my computer, I would transfer them and save them in the ext-HDD, but it’s a slow device and goes to sleep etc, so not very user friendly and not as fast as of working on a computer. So now that I bought a fast ext-SSD, I will use it as a first backup, which have fast transfers with the computer. Then once in a while, I will backup the ext-SSD into the ext-HDD.
My old and conventional method was to remember the location of the modified files and overwrite them in the ext-HDD and sometimes create new folders for new files, using sample Windows copy/paste or drag to move and save stuff on the final backup media. Not sure if there
- But, if I don’t want to do that between the ext-SSD and the ext-HDD, and instead of a full copy between the two drives, which will take hours, is there some ways and softwares that will update and re-work the external HDD for only the modified folders and files to match the external SSD ? a program that will just scan the ext-SSD and check what are the difference in folder structures/names and files and only make copy the modified ones and make the new folders and such, comparing file sizes, dates and other parameters to make sure to not touch the exact same ones.
- Or is it safer and most efficient just to copy the entire SSD into the external HDD every time, which more likely will take hours.
- Do some of those programs have the options to optimize the space on the drives? like defragmenting and do a better grouping and such? I noticed that the HDD actual files size and actual on disk storage size is very different, while the T7 SSD seem to have them very close to each other.
Pleas advice what should I do and what few free softwares are available for both cases?
Thank you!
PS: I’ve put in my notes the name of few softwares that I stumble on over time but never looked into them yet and probably each of them is for different applications, like:
Clonezilla
Macrium Reflect
terabyte unlimited Image backup restore suite
Aomei backupper
Rsync
Freefilesync
syncfolders
robocopy
borgbackup
Veeam Agent
CrystalDiskInfo
Ddrescue
Acronis
CZKAWKA
Carbon Copy Cloner
Super Duper
soft raid
Duplicati
Duplicacy
Raise data recovery
R-studio
Getdataback Pro
ufs-explorer
DMDE
