I backed up my files to another drive and I think they are okay, but how can i check to be sure that they are all backed up okay and find those that aren't ?
I moved some about, so I cannot just compare the directories exactly.
You might possibly use a duplicate file finder program to do the comparison:
E.g. Auslogics Duplicate file finder
Best to use a competent backup program which supports verification and scheduling. There are free backup programs- doing that manually is inadvisable.
Thanks for your quick reply.
I use a backup program, TrueSafe, but when I move my files around ( to classify my photos ) it backs up the same files AGAIN, wasting space.
So I want to know which files are not backed up and only copy them.
I found an application in the Windows store that might work, called Backupcheck free.
It's looks a bit old-fashioned, but sounds like it finds the un-backed-up files
https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9NTVJX0JMFN6
Perhaps, one way to sniff out non-backed files is to use a file-sync program that compares source and target, and if set to mirror, will make the target the same as the source.
No, I think mirroring is not what I want - The problem is that I copied a LOT of files to the backup, then moved them around in the Source, into subfolders etc. and added just a few new files ( I was categorising photos and adding some new ones ).
I did not want to mirror the entire new Source structure, because that would duplicate and waste a LOT of backup space. I just want to copy over the few new files.
So I needed to know which files in the Source were not stored somewhere in the Backup.
Which that Backupchecker thing did.
WalterCT, what url did you get backupchecker from? My googling returned too many unknown-to-me download sites.
Hi Roland,
I searched in the official Windows Store for check backup or something like that. Not even as many hits as I expected. (And how crap is that store in general. No way too search by stars even !)
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