SyncBack tips:

There are two kinds of people:
"Those that make regular backup and those that will"

Backup your data - NOW!

If you use Syncback here are some great tips from Gordon Nelson:

Syncback Tips:

Steps I've found that seem to work for me for an "intelligent" restore.

1) In the copy/delete section check do not replace newer files with older files.
2) Under advanced, set do nothing on what to do if the file is in the destination, but not in the source.

Item one insures that a newly modified primary file is not overwritten by an older backed up file. If you are restoring a corrupted file, this would not be desirable, so think.

Item two insures that newly added files will not be deleted from the original data. If this is what you want, fine. If you are attempting to go back to an earlier state, neither of these would be what you want. If you are doing a simple file restore from an incremental backup, drop and drag or simple copy may work better.

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To set a profile to run when a specific external hard drive, jump drive, SD card, zip drive, etc. Modify your profile, click the Expert button, go to the Background tab. See the setting 'Run this profile when:'

Hi, create/modify your profile, click the Expert button, go to the Background tab. On there you can specify that the profile is run whenever a disk/drive is inserted/connected with a specific label or serial. You don't need to specify all those, e.g. you can just specify the label. There's no need to say which drive and/or serial as well.

For the destination specification you can use variables. In your case, as you don't know the drive letter, you can use the %SERIAL% or %LABEL% variables. For example, if the disk/drive has a label of MyDisk then you can set the destination to %LABEL=MyDisk%\My Backup\

You cannot say don't run the profile if an app is running, but you can have it auto-close those application.

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My way of avoiding this type of issue is very easy using SyncBack.
1. I created 3 profiles "Daily Backup - 2nd Drive", "Daily Backup - USB", and "Daily Backup - Network".
2. I then created "Group" called "Daily Backups", I put the 3 "Daily Backup
- *" profiles in the "Daily Backups" group.
3. I then created a shortcut to "Daily Backups".
4. I set the "Daily Backups" group to run nightly via the Task Scheduler.
5. Finally, if I do a lot of work in the morning, I run "Daily Backups" by clicking on the shortcut icon.

This way, I have backups going to 3 different locations all of the time. If I lose 1 or 2 of my backup devices, I still have a good backup at all times.

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1) What are the commands used to shutdown the system after making the backup?

You need to use the -shutdown command line parameter. See the help file (Command Line Parameters).
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2) How do I make a shortcut on the desktop

Click on the profile in the main window and drag it to the desktop. You then need to modify that shortcut to add the -shutdown parameter.

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