Automatic Backup via USB Flash Drive

[ResonantEcho]

Hello,

I am in the market for a simple USB flash drive application that can be installed to perform an automatic backup of a specific folder on a computer. I would prefer a program that can be installed on the flash drive itself so that nothing would have to be installed on the host machine. I would like this application to be as simple as possible, as this will primarily be used by non-computer savvy folks.

I look forward to seeing any comments or suggestions that you may have.

Much appreciated!

[Steve R Jones]

Your first had part is getting the flash drive to use the Exact Same drive letter each time....
Even using the something like the following would be tough to automate unless the drive letter remaind constant.

(has to be installed on the pc's drive)
SyncBack is a flexible, and quite powerful backup and synchronization program that allows to to maintain backup copies of your files and folder, or to synchronize them, so that both locations always have a complete copy (e.g Laptop/PC). It offers different types of actions that let you choose how older and newer files are processed, which files should be excluded (by mask) and more. It offers standard file comparison based on the date and size, as well as optional MD5 checksum, which will detect even the slightest modifications to files. SyncBack also supports scheduled projects, FTP and zip compression of backups, as well as network login, simulation runs and more.

SyncBack download and review - backup and synchronization tool from SnapFiles

[ResonantEcho]

Thank you for the quick response. I'll download it now and give it a spin!

[Rootstonian]

Not sure on this one, but on a USB insert will the "AutoPlay" dialog sense a batch file on it?

If so, I would create a batch file and just do: copy c:\folder_name\*.* g:\ (where c is main computer and g is the flash drive)
You USUALLY get the same drive letter; assuming (LOL) nothing has changed.