This comes with my usual "is this the right forum?" disclaimer.
As many know, I am a budding author with 2.75 books published and a couple more outlined. This amounts to about 300,000 words and 1,000 or more hours of typing. This doesn't count imagination time. As one can imagine, I'm pretty paranoid about having enough backups. I even carry not one but TWO thumb dives on my key ring containing the most recent updates. Everything I have worth having is backed up upon a 500gb external which is echoed to another 500gb external. But NOT in the same order as they are on the computer.
So, when I saw the KeepSafe program I thought it might be just what I wanted. The problem is I have my file system ordered just so with only certain drives I want to care for, and I sure don't want them backed up someplace new - I want them backed up where they are now. I can't even look to see if this program will do this. To read, it sounds like I could tell it a folder to back up, but it will put it where it wants on a drive I chose. It also sounds like the back up is encrypted some how? It is too locked up to tell (ONLY Documents are active and ONLY extensions can be edited)
What I would like, and it sounds like KeepSafe would work perhaps, is the following.
- My book lives in Documents folder in its own directory, the rest of documents are important but normally I don't pay much attention.
- The book's cover art and research art live in Pictures folder with one directory containing all those folders.
- Both of these directories reside in the same directory on the backup drive which is NOT the one Documents is in.
- When it is backup up, Documents and Pictures need to skip the book's folders, I don't want to waste space in the backup drive for duplicates.
- Don't get me going on the complex method I use to sort and back up my photos and graphics. And the totally wacky way I store my downloads (which are constantly changing)
For obvious reasons, I don't want things in some proprietary language. So this is my question, does KeepSafe do this and how does it store the data? I don't want to buy a program that I install, look at once, and uninstall because it isn't what I need. I can't afford to.
((Ed. Moved to another forum))