[andrewanimation]

Hello,

I want to back up all of my data to my external hard drive at the end of every day, and I started using the Acronis True Image Home software to do so. I made the first backup yesterday, which understandably took a long time. But now I'm running the first daily backup, as a test, and it says it'll take 4 hours to finish! And this is with it set at the highest priority. I imagined that automatic backup software would simply search the files for any that were created or modified since the last backup and then back up those files where they belong in the folder locations. If there were simply an 'Overwrite Older Files Only' option in the regular Windows explorer, I would just do this kind of backup myself. It shouldn't take 4 hours for this to happen.

Can anyone tell me of a better backup software, or a reason that I should stay with Acronis anyway, when compared to the other options?

Thank you

[cyberspacegenie]

I think there was a similar post to this recently asking the same question so would be worth doing a search. There were some recommendations for some free ones. I use Second Copy (not free) and am quite happy with it. After the first back up it only rebacks up changed files so it is quite quick, depending on how many files have been changed, added etc.

Take a look in Acronis at the settings to see if there is a similar option to this, it sounds like its trying to back up all the data again, so it may just be a setting issue. I would have thought there would be a similar option. If not then I think you can download a 30 trial of second copy and see if that works any better for you.

[andrewanimation]

OMGOSH that program works like a dream!! Very fast and..well..PERFECT! Thank you SO MUCH for telling me about it! I had given up and set up a manual strategy for backing up my stuff, but now it'll be super easy! You rock cyberspace :D

[cyberspacegenie]

Glad I was able to help.