How to back up an external hard drive

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crescere

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My computer only holds 300 GB, so as I accumulated files I had to move some over to a Seagate 2TB external hard drive. Some files are on both my computer and the external hard drive, but some files are ONLY on the external hard drive. This means that some files are not backed up. What do I do? Is there a way to backup that external hard drive? Carbonite will only back up what is on your computer.


I have a desktop HP Pavillion Slimline s3200n with Vista. I have been told at the HP site that I do not have room or a power source for an additional internal hard drive so I can’t add one. I guess I could simply replace my current hard drive with a larger one, but that would involve moving Vista and the many many other programs off site. I would probably mess that up since I do not have much experience.
 
I thought about getting an additional hard drive to back up the first one, but after the initial back up how do I add only NEW files to the back up hard drive? Won't the back up drive read the files already there and ask if I want to replace them each time? I hope I am explaining myself well.
 
If you are running out of room then you could clone your existing drive to a larger drive. It has to be cloned or you won't be able to boot to it. And if you aren't computer savvy to do this then ask around for help. If you buy a western digital drive, they have their own version of Acronis true Image that will clone the drive for you.
 
I thought about getting an additional hard drive to back up the first one, but after the initial back up how do I add only NEW files to the back up hard drive? Won't the back up drive read the files already there and ask if I want to replace them each time? I hope I am explaining myself well.
 
You need to use a program that allows incremental backups, like Acronis True Image.
 
Everything for Acronis.com comes up "404 Not Found". What do (or did) they do?

Aren’t there any “smart” external drives out there that will differentiate and load only what is a new file?
 
It looks like Acronis is down right now.

You can set it up to backup to a different hard drive or external. I haven't used it in years though.
 
I have been told at the HP site that I do not have room or a power source for an additional internal hard drive so I can’t add one. I guess I could simply replace my current hard drive with a larger one, but that would involve moving Vista and the many many other programs off site. I would probably mess that up since I do not have much experience.



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