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To use this backup method you will need to have Total Commander installed.
 | Start Total Commander and select the Source Directory in the left-hand
pane and the Target Directory in the right-hand pane. |
| In my case I have selected
c:\Brother\BrDriver\MfcXP as my Source Folder in the left-hand pane. |
| Then I am going to select my portable Lacie Hard drive as the Target
Drive.... and ... then select the Backups/MFC folder on the Lacie where my
files from the C Drive will be backed up to. |
| I then select Commands from the Total Commander Menu and down to
Synchronize Dirs... |
| The Synchronize Directories window will open... |
| Notice the Source and Target directories are listed at the top. Make sure
these are correct. Then go to the Show section and unclick all but the green
arrow. This will only show the files on the Source that need updating. |
| Then click Compare and ... |
| Here you can see all of the files have been checked as needing to be
backed up. That is, they don't exist in the Target directory or they are
different (need backing up). |
 Go ahead and click on
Synchronize....
| The Synchronize dialogue window will confirm what you want to do... If it
looks right... click Ok. |
| When the file transfer has finished the Synchronize Directories window
will show no files. |
| After you have created your first backup, the beauty of using this method
is that in future you only need to backup those files that have changed (this
is called an incremental backup). If a file exists on the Target that also
exists in the Source it will ask if you want to overwrite the Target file....
if you are doing an incremental backup you can safely answer 'OverWrite All
Older'. |
| The result is ... a perfect image of your original files ... both
directories are the same. |
 Once you have
finished, click on Close.
By using the above backup method you can backup your important files quickly
and safely.
Last updated:
26/09/2005
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