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Re: Autobackup with OneDrive
wraith808:
Most of the solutions that you've been using require that your files be in a certain location. They're not backup solutions- they're sync solutions. For google drive, it will create a drive folder. Only the files in that folder will be synced. Same with Onedrive, and Dropbox. If you really want to use a sync solution as your backup, and want to use one of these for it, you have to make use of symbolic links so you can store the files in the folder they want you to, but it's accessible where you want to access it from. Or you can use Cubby. It allows you to make any folder a sync folder. https://www.cubby.com/
Jimdoria:
It sounds like what you want is more in line with Mozy. It is a cloud-based backup software that automatically copies files up to the cloud. It automatically syncs certain file types but you can configure it to do any kind of custom backup. You don't configure it through Windows Explorer though, you need to use the Mozy client.
But it will not do synchronization across machines. Is that also what you are looking for?
If so, I cannot recommend InSync highly enough! It syncs with Google Drive and is highly configurable.
Also very inexpensive and well worth the money!
https://www.insynchq.com/
kalos:
It sounds like what you want is more in line with Mozy. It is a cloud-based backup software that automatically copies files up to the cloud. It automatically syncs certain file types but you can configure it to do any kind of custom backup. You don't configure it through Windows Explorer though, you need to use the Mozy client.
But it will not do synchronization across machines. Is that also what you are looking for?
If so, I cannot recommend InSync highly enough! It syncs with Google Drive and is highly configurable.
Also very inexpensive and well worth the money!
https://www.insynchq.com/
-Jimdoria (June 05, 2016, 10:22 PM)
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that InSync seems to be the best option, but isn't there any opensource freeware?
it's not that the money is much but I would prefer a more mainstream developer
Clive:
Hello Kalos,
Here's my solution:
1) I have a dedicated hard drive which I have configured as the OneDrive destination. Go here to see how to do it
2) I use backup software called Yadis which backs up my My Documents partition to the OneDrive HDD. It backs up in real time and has versioning.
3) OneDrive then backs up to my cloud storage
Hope that helps
kalos:
Wow Clive! Your solutions seems awesome, I 've been looking for that quite long time! thanks!
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