Recommend a good free backup program?

The VCR King

The VCR King

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I have a 1TB WD Passport I use for backups with windows backup but i want something better. I want a backup program that essentially drags-and-drops all my files from my C drive and puts a copy on my external drive, and it changes the backup every time I delete/write to the C drive. I need to figure out how to get a good backup going because one of these days this dang PC is gonna catch on fire/explode/implode/just die and I need to be prepared.
 
Currently use Google Drive for my backup needs. But before that i just wrote a batch script to do it and added it to windows scheduler.
 
RAID1 just prevents you from a single hard drive failure, so if that's what you're worried about it will work well. But if you accidentally delete/corrupt your data, or you have a multi-component failure, it's useless.

Windows Backup is a poor program. For me, I use FreeFileSync which constantly keeps my data drive and NAS in sync. Then my NAS syncs with Google Drive.
 
Commercial backup programs used to be the best way to go because they were the only way to get features like advanced scheduling, disk and partition cloning, incremental backup, but they do everything expensive. Recommend EaseUS Todo Backup, it can backup individual files and/or whole folders to and from a location on a local drive or network folder, as well as save backups to a free cloud storage service, and it has free version.
 
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