{"id":933,"date":"2021-04-28T20:30:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T20:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rockblotter.com\/DijaKnowThat\/?p=933"},"modified":"2021-04-28T21:24:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T21:24:18","slug":"using-syncback-for-your-backups-part-1-creating-a-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rockblotter.com\/DijaKnowThat\/using-syncback-for-your-backups-part-1-creating-a-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Using SyncBack for your Backups Part 1: Creating a Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I don’t know about you, but I like to keep my files local and not in the cloud.\u00a0 That means, I need to maintain regular backups to ensure I don\u2019t lose my financials and other data I’ve maintained electronically over a couple of decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

My desktop has three hard drives, a system drive, a media drive and a data drive.\u00a0 The system is the “system” and I don’t store data or media for long term use and access on the system drive. I’ve had to replace a failed system drive a few too many times and know better.\u00a0 The “media” drive has all of my photos, music, video and books, both ebooks as well as audiobooks and that baby, at 4tb is near full at this point.\u00a0 The data drive contains all of my records and financial data going back years as well as copies of software installers for all of the programs I use, including Windows system installers.\u00a0 That is a 3tb drive and not nearly as full as the media drive.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, you can see that I have quite a bit of data.\u00a0 I have TWO backups of all that data \u2026 did I mention that I’m a bit OCD about my data?\u00a0 I have an older PC that has FOUR 4tb drives as well as a NAS that also has FOUR 4tb drives installed.\u00a0 I use them to store my backups.<\/span><\/p>\n

I use a program called “SyncBack<\/a>” for backing up all of my data.\u00a0 I have the paid Pro version, but the free version works nicely as well and I use that version on my laptop.\u00a0 It makes the job of backing up, synchronizing, and restoring data files a simple task as SyncBack allows you to create profiles that I can run at the click of a button. And, if I choose, I can create schedules that will automatically “run” at specified times, daily, weekly or monthly. I save my files “locally” \u2026 but if you have the internet bandwidth as well as the storage space required to save it on a cloud service, for example, to a Google Drive<\/a> or OneDrive<\/a>, you can do that as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can get the “free” version here:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.2brightsparks.com\/freeware\/index.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Once you have SyncBack installed and launched, you’ll need to set up your first profile.<\/span><\/p>\n

Creating and Configuring your First Profile<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

After SyncBack starts, you will see the main interface. To create a profile, click the\u00a0NEW<\/b> button at the bottom-left of the window.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Enter a name for your backup and then click NEXT<\/b>.\u00a0 In my case, I have a number of crochet videos that I want to back up, so I’m going to enter “Crochet Video.”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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A new window will appear asking you “What type of profile do you want to create?”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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There are basically THREE types of backups you can use: Backup, Syncronize and Mirror. You can click on the question mark to the left of each radio button to get more information about what each type of backup mode does.<\/span><\/p>\n
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After you’ve clicked on “Done” \u2026 a new informational window will appear stating that the “main profile setup window appear once you’ve clicked “OK.”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Note that we didn’t set up the destination paths above.\u00a0 Instead, we’re going to set those up in the “Simple” Profile Setup window instead.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Define the locations on your home network WHERE Syncback can find your SOURCE documents and the DESTINATION as to where copies are to be maintained by clicking the folder icons circled in RED in the above graphic.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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In my case, MY “source” is a folder on my “media” drive (M:\\) and my destination is our NAS drive on our home network. Your basic profile is now set up and it can be run manually from the main window after your click the OK button.\u00a0 A confirmation window will appear asking if you want to perform a “simulated run.”\u00a0 Click YES to see how files would be affected on both source and destination drives (without changing any files whatsoever), or click NO to be taken back to the main SyncBack application window.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Once you return to the main SyncBack application window, you will now see the new profile you’ve created.\u00a0 Here’s a screen copy of mine.\u00a0 You can now run that profile by clicking on it once to highlight it, and then clicking on the RUN button in the menu at the bottom of the window.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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For this demonstration, I set up a “Manual Mirror” backup that I would need to execute before heading to bed each night.\u00a0 I could, however, have set up profile that would run automatically on a set schedule instead.\u00a0 I’ll explain that in Part 2.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know about you, but I like to keep my files local and not in the cloud.\u00a0 That means, I need to maintain regular backups to ensure I don\u2019t lose my financials and other data I’ve maintained electronically over a couple of decades. My desktop has three hard drives, a system drive, a media […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69,4],"tags":[102,101,100],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backup","category-how-to","tag-manual-backup","tag-mirror-backup","tag-syncback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rockblotter.com\/DijaKnowThat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rockblotter.com\/DijaKnowThat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rockblotter.com\/DijaKnowThat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockblotter.com\/DijaKnowThat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockblotter.com\/DijaKnowThat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockblotter.com\/DijaKnowThat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockblotter.com\/DijaKnowThat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rockblotter.com\/DijaKnowThat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockblotter.com\/DijaKnowThat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockblotter.com\/DijaKnowThat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}