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Make a script to back up data and small program files for new computer
I expect my husband's elderly laptop (Asus, upgraded from W7 to W8.1 to W10 home) will suddenly stop working at some point. He mostly does email and browses the web, so there is not a lot of new content to back up every day. I do periodic system backups with Macrium Reflect in case we need to restore to this computer. I also brute copied to the external backup disk the majority of his content, much of which is videos of him working with horses (he learns a lot from watching the videos) and the rest is shortcuts on the desktop to his folders for Word and Excel files. I would like to do the data backups routinely, without having to copy first one folder and then another.
I know there is a tutorial section for backups. Can someone point me to just what I want? I looked at the recommendations for Backup 2 Pro and SyncToy, but they back up to their own formats. I would like the backup files to be readable. (so that if he deletes something he then wants I can just find it and put it back.)
Once I dredge through his computer and find all of the bits that change that I want to back up (I am going to have to install Notepad++ and Paint.net in order to do for him what he needs, and I will want to back up those files, etc), I will want a script or something like that so I don't need to tell the computer to do each little piece separately.
On my computer I have a separate drive for my stuff, and it is pretty easy for me to just copy that drive, plus the folders that won't let me relocate them (Desktop, Downloads, etc) to the backup drive. I didn't go through the challenge of partitioning my husband's drive because the computer has a lot of stuff specific to the particular machine (for the touchpad, etc) and I didn't want to mess anything up.
Thank you so much for your help!