Most of the options discussed here are for file backup and will not recover your PC to a working state.

Note Macrium Reflect enables full recovery of your PC to a working state by recovering all the partitions including the hidden ones need for Windows to function. You could disable scheduled backups whilst abroad and run them manually when required. I suggest you contact Macrium support who are very good at resolving issues. This command can be run on a schedule using Task Scheduler: Where D: is HDD and U: is USB drive, after this initial command, There are several how-to's on the web (like ), but it might be best to explore it and its advanced settings/options yourself.Īctually robocopy seems simple to use. Each version of a file has the date/time added to the name. There is also an option to remove older versions of files.Īnd maybe cannot be browsed with File Manager. There are several options to help manage disc space, like this one: I'm not sure I like the idea of a 'snapshot' because it sounds like something that accumulates eventually filling up the backup drive, You could also have a look at 'File History', already included with Windows 10.

My wife will probably feel comfortable with FreeFileSync. There are no proprietary files involved, just a sync of the file system. I've used FreeFileSync (open source, Windows, Mac & Linux) for years for my file/folder synchronization.

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