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I have a job to backup my entire boot drive to an external drive, and it always produces errors when it gets to about the last 15-20%. I then choose to ignore all subsequent errors, and it finishes the job. Since I already know that I don't care about these errors, is there a way to toggle a "skip ...

Yeah I got errors on some of the system files but everything else was fine. I did get this error right at the start though:

Cannot set directory lock for C:\.
Cannot write file C:\sync.ffs_lock.
Error Code 5: Access is denied. (CreateFile)

But aside from that, everything transferred perfectly ...

And just to make sure, it is safe to backup the entire boot drive while it is running?

Thanks for the reply. Actually, would it be simpler to just run it as shown in this attachment?

C - boot drive with some data
D - data drive
E - smaller drive with misc stuff

F - external drive #1
G - external drive #2

I think I was a little confused yesterday because I didn't realize that each ...

I have 2 internal drives and 2 externals, and I would like to backup internal#1 to external#1, and internal#2 to external#2. Is there a way to run both of these tasks simultaneously?

I have tested it by just opening 2 instances of FreeFileSync, but I'm not sure if that will cause any issues or if ...