File Backup software

Greetings gang!

I am in the need of a file backup software that I store on my computer and want to transfer them
to an external hard drive. These files consist of jpg. screenshots, Microsoft word files, pdf's
and videos I have copied.

Here is the problem I keep running into with this...

I don't want these files dependent on directories. I want to go back and delete the files on my computer that I copied to the external to free up room and change my habit of not storing anything
like this on the actual computer itself.

I have AutoBackup6 by O & O software and I had to learn the hard way after copying tons of these
files they were dependent on these directories that are on my computer therefore; I could not
delete all the files on the computer. So, this is not what I'm looking for.

What happened to a simple program that can copy these files over without any chaos like this?

I am not looking for a disk imaging program although I have seen in Paragon it copies files over,
but I do not know if they are to dependent on a directory that's on my computer. If I knew Paragon would work I would buy it just for this, but I don't. So, I thought someone here may know or have a better idea. Please share, thank you.

This is for windows 10 64bit.

 

Maybe this one would be useful to you for that.

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/perfect-backup.448323/

 

Wow, this looks great Easter! I'm gonna give it a try. Thank you.

 

I'm confused. If you don't have two identical files, you don't have a backup.

 

That's why i suggested to OP the application @mood posted perfect backup instead. It quickly and easily creates duplicates of any folders/files and even does 'incrementals'. I have a full backup with (3) recent incremental's on a SD Card right now with it.

Actually a very handy program program for doing Files/Folders Only backups that you can transfer from system to system or just storage them offline.

 

But it seems @Rilla927 wants to delete the primary files.

 

robocopy is quite possibly the simplest and most powerful inbuilt backup/replica tool there is..

you could for example robocopy "source" "destination" /MOVE

/MOVE : Move files and dirs (delete from source after copying).or just use /MOV for files

not sure why youd want to that but hey, check out some of the useful commands it can do
https://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html

 

Always wondered about that built-in robocopy program. Thanks for the tip on that.

 

my main use is /MIR for mirroring directories (anything deleted on source gets deleted on destination)
ace for backup of directories to a second/third copy (nas etc)

(i personally only ever image my OS drive...everything else is on different disks ... robocopy scripts give me a mirror of any directory or set of directories easily.

I use robocopy as the primary tool for massive fileserver data migration projects at work, as it can handle the permissions and subsequent passes are so quick... amazing tool!

 

I use Robocopy for my data backups. It can do amazing things.

 

Create Synchronicity is an open source backup and synchronization software. It gives options like mirror backup and also incremental backup without deleting files in destination if they are not found in source. For windows 10, .net framework 3.5 needs to be enabled in programs and features if it is not already done.

https://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/