Few options for backing up files is any simpler or cheaper than what already comes with every MS OS.
It's an age old DOS program called "XCopy".
I use it daily, to keep "My Documents" and "My Files" and a few other select folders, backed up to my second hard drive.
I just wrote a simple batch routine incorporating the XCopy command and attached it to my 'Quick Shutdown' routine. Of course, it could also be run by itself or even run from the "Task Scheduler" if desired.
With the proper switches at the end of the command line, XCopy will back up only files that have changed or do not exist in the backup folder (new files).
My backup batch file starts off like this, backing up everything under "My Documents".
Quote:@Echo off
cls
Rem Backup My Documents and all sub-folders/files.
xcopy "C:\Documents and Settings\Randy\My Documents\*.*" "D:\My Documents\" /s /y /H /R /D
As needed or wanted, extra lines can be added to the batch file at any time with either Wordpad or Notepad and existing lines can be modified.
There's no need to add more software to your PC.
Well, that's my little solution to the files/folders backup problem, anyway.