| Re: Backup software- any of them backup just what's been saved? Hosh <1@2.com> wrote:
> This is for my wife, who cannot seem to get it in her head to keep
> all of her file within My Documents. She saves anywhere and everywher
> and then she searches. Forget it I've tried...
Hmmm - it seems odd that she's doing this, given that most applications will
automatically respect the My Documents path, and you'd have to go well out
of your way to save files elsewhere (unless you mean downloads from the
Internet, etc - which you can fix by using Mozilla and specifying a folder
for downloads)
>
> ...So. My question is:
> Is there backup software out there that runs in the background, which
> will automatically backup a saved file on the fly?
>
> If she creates a Word let's say, and she hits Save, the software will
> automatically put a copy on the backup drive, in the same folder as
> on the hard drive on her computer.
>
> Sort of like simulating a mirroring/raid set up.
>
> Thanks!
Not that I know of, although you might check out Acronis' desktop products
and get an external USB/firewire drive. |