automatic backup to onedrive without synciing

With Microsoft 365 the space on OneDrive increased to 1TB. I looked at backing up my data but I don't want to backup documents, I want to backup other folders or only a folder in documents. Syncing isn't the answer as I want a backup incase I delete something or change something that I didn't intend to do and simply want to recover a file. I searched for some free tool to do the job and can't find anything except software that's limited unless you want to pay. I was wondering if anyone knows of a method to perform a backup of files or folder to OneDrive without syncing or manually dragging the file from my C: drive to OneDrive? I'm looking for something that can be scheduled so I don't have to worry about the last time I performed a backup. Note that I'm running Windows 10 Pro that's fully up to date and fully patched.

dalchina said:

Actually Onedrive supports backup versioning- you may think of it as syncing, but it does offer backup version history. I.e. as time goes on, it retains older versions of the same file, and not just one which is immediately overwritten on any change.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...f-de6e96c93893

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...a-bcab618c7a37

View, Restore, and Delete Previous Versions of Files on OneDrive

Do have a look at the huge searchable tutorial section- there are many on Onedrive alone.

That said, I - along with some others others on the forum- dislike Onedrive and have eradicated it, preferring a 3rd party file backup solution, which complements the routine and regular use of 3rd party disk imaging.

I think that I was following along with the link you sent me but I may not have done things correctly. I created a folder called Test on my PC. I then opened notepad and created a test.txt doc in that folder. I then used MKLink to create a symbolic link to the test folder and immediately there was a folder and file on onedrive. However when I go to onedrive and open the folder in onedrive the path at the top is pointing to the folder on PC and there was no restore option. Seems like too much trouble and a secondary concern would be deleting a file on the PC and that file would not show up on Onedrive either. I have a utility that backs up my most critical data every night at 10 to a 3rd party cloud service but I'm limited on free space and I don't want to pay for more storage. Since I now have 1 TB of space on outlook I thought I would make use of it to backup some other folders that contain a lot of data so I was looking for something that was easy to use that didn't cost anything or was just a one time license fee instead of an annual subscription.

I use StableBit CloudDrive with OneDrive. It creates what looks like any other HD on your system, but that data is actually on OneDrive, fully encrypted. So any backup program will work with it. It's just like you are backing up to a local HD.

I have not tried uninstalling OneDrive, but I suppose that is possible. But it works really well. Very impressed with their software.