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Anyone, please? Esp. about which folders to exclude... Thanx.

So what would you say are the best practices for Windows 10 FFS backup to a HDD? The folders I listed? Any exclusions?

Are my other assumptions right?

Thank you.

You are right about public/user Desktop, I checked it and it's exactly right - I've only selected the user Desktop in my test - and the lnk files were in public Desktop.

I think it's obvious what you wrote about deleting a folder on the destination with the "mirror" function - deleting a folder (or ...

So the "database function" serves so that if any files were moved or renamed on the source, it does that on the destination only, but without copying from the source. So all it is, is't a time-saver function, right? Not mandatory for usage?

Anyway, I've istalled FFS and tried it out with a USB ...

Backing up to a USB flash drive would be probably faster than to a USB attached HDD?

What are the database options?

I've read some posts of people losing data after trying FFS for the first time. I don't want that, I would like only to do a one-way mirror/comparison, so only copy new files ...

Thanx, you've been very helpful, I understand FFS better now. It's all about data backup, not system backup.

I have around 300 GB of data files on my internal disk. How long would it take just to compare the synched folders of my internal disk VS my external USB attached disk? Majority of flies ...

I see, thank you for the reply.

What are the best practices to use FFS like, really? Only sync the data folders on an external HDD (or USB)?

If I only do the sync "one-way" (copying/modifying/overwriting - but only from the local disk, to the external disk), you still wouldn't recommend doing this ...

Thank you for the reply.

Would that work: I first clone my internal disk (with imaging software) to my external disk. Then, I sync all partitions, whole (C, D etc.) between the internal and external disk. At the end of the day, I connect the external disk via USB and let FFS do it's magic.

Could a ...

Hi,

I have a Windows 10 PC and would like a weekly (or maybe even daily) sync of my whole local disk to an external disk.

Using FFS, I'm planning to fist make a complete copy of all my partitions (not only the C partition but the hidden ones too) on the external drive (which is the same size as ...