Subscriber and friend Sam Boggs wrote me to say:

Terry:
I recently purchased a Seagate 160 GB external hard drive to back up key files. It did not come with any software; it just acts like an oversized thumb drive, and it works fine in that mode. I have manually copied “My Documents” to that new drive.

My question is this:
Is there any software, preferably freeware, that will allow me to do a quick incremental backup (for example will write only new and overwrite only more recent file versions) without asking me about each individual file. For example, if I have an old text called “abc.doc” and it hasn’t changed since the last backup, I’d like the software to not put a second copy of abc.doc on the external HD, or ask me if I want to overwrite.

I’ve seen “One button backup” advertised on some external HD’s but this doesn’t have it built in.

Thanks again for your very helpful and informative newsletter.
Sam Boggs

Must be time for articles on backing up your system and backing up your data.

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