I was struggling for a solution to backup my data (photos, home videos, musics, etc.), I don't need to backup my system entirely (if something bad happen, I prefer to reinstall the software that I currently need, not the entire junk I have installed over the years :-)
I have compared some commercial application, but they were expansive, and with too much options that I will never use. Then I tried DSynchronize, a shareware program, with no installer, no write in the registry -- A very simple program.
The size of the files I need to backup is about 300 gigs (the video part is about 200 gigs (thanks to my HD camcorder Canon-Vixia HF100 and my cute two babies for whom I take snapshot of their new life)). I need room for future expansion, so I opted for 1 terabyte capacity (which is relatively cheap).
I bought an internal harddrive (Western Digital 1 Terabyte, the source drive), and an external harddrive (Comstar 1 Terabyte, the destination drive).
I created some repositories (video, picture, audio, etc.) in the internal drive, and I moved the stuff I want to backup inside those repositories. It is to be noted that I don't use these drives when I do video editing for example, I just put the raw video, and the result (the complete edited video). The video editing is done on RAID-0 hard drives which are much faster.
Then I start Dsynchronize, set the repositories (this is done once) and click synchronize. Voilà, that's it.
The first time, it copy all the stuff to the external drive, and after that it is incremental (deleting, adding files to match the ones on the internal drive).
François
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